Molecular excitation in the interstellar medium: Recent advances in collisional, radiative, and chemical processes

E Roueff, F Lique - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Our main knowledge about astrophysical environments relies on radiative spectra.
Absorption studies require background sources that are located hapharzadly in …

Experimental investigation on the formation of carbon-bearing molecules in the interstellar medium via neutral− neutral reactions

RI Kaiser - Chemical Reviews, 2002 - ACS Publications
The physical and chemical processes leading to the formation of molecules in the interstellar
medium (ISM) sthe vast voids between the starssfascinated scientists since the first detection …

2018 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 204 individual molecular species, comprised of 16 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 241 individual molecular species, composed of 19 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2012

D McElroy, C Walsh, AJ Markwick, MA Cordiner… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
We present the fifth release of the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry (UDfA). The new
reaction network contains 6173 gas-phase reactions, involving 467 species, 47 of which are …

Discovery of H2CCCH+ in TMC-1

W Silva, J Cernicharo, S Schlemmer… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Based on a novel laboratory method, 14 millimeter-wave lines of the molecular ion H 2
CCCH+ have been measured in high resolution, and the spectroscopic constants of this …

A λ2 mm molecular line survey of the C-star envelope IRC+ 10216

J Cernicharo, M Guélin, C Kahane - Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2000 - aas.aanda.org
The mm-wave spectrum of the C-star envelope IRC+ 10216 has been continuously
surveyed between 129.0 and 172.5 GHz with the IRAM 30-m telescope. 380 lines are …

Chemical evolution of turbulent protoplanetary disks and the solar nebula

D Semenov, D Wiebe - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the influence of transport processes on the chemical evolution of DM Tau-like
protoplanetary disks. Turbulent transport of gases and ices is implicitly modeled in full two …

The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2022

TJ Millar, C Walsh, M Van de Sande… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Detailed astrochemical models are a key component to interpret the observations of
interstellar and circumstellar molecules since they allow important physical properties of the …

Abundant carbon-chain molecules toward the low-mass protostar IRAS 04368+ 2557 in L1527

N Sakai, T Sakai, T Hirota… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We have detected the high-excitation lines of carbon-chain molecules such as C 4 H 2 (J=
10_ {0, 10}{\mbox {--}} 9_ {0, 9}), C 4 H (N= 9 {\mbox {--}} 8, F 1, F 2), lC 3 H 2 (4 1, 3-3 1, 2) …