Missing interstellar sulfur in inventories of polysulfanes and molecular octasulfur crowns [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe disparity between predicted sulfur abundances and identified reservoirs of sulfur in cold molecular clouds, also known as the sulfur depletion problem, has remained an ongoing debate over decades.
Ashanie Herath +8 more
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Atomistic Modeling of Methyl Formate and Glycolaldehyde Formation on Interstellar Dirty Ice Mantles via a "Radical + Ice" Mechanism. [PDF]
ChempluschemThe presence of interstellar complex organic molecules (COMs) has been baffling astrochemists for a long time. Methyl formate and glycolaldehyde are widely detected but their abundances mismatch kinetic astrochemical model predictions. Here, the formation of these two COMs is characterized onto a mixed ice surface, highlighting the importance of ...
Perrero J +3 more
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Methanetetrol and the final frontier in ortho acids [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe rapid dissociation of methanetetrol (C(OH)4) has been suggested as an impediment to its observation, despite the stability of its substituted derivative orthocarbonates (C(OR)4).
Joshua H. Marks +10 more
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Creating a new paradigm for the local interstellar medium–A perspective
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 The interstellar medium close to the Sun called the local ISM (LISM) provides critical insights into physical processes and phenomena in the more distant interstellar medium in our Galaxy without the confusion of many complex structures in the sight ...
Jeffrey L. Linsky, Seth Redfield
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 Combined in situ observations of the interstellar wind through the solar system and of its pickup ions (PUIs), implanted after ionization in the solar wind, explain, in comparison with interstellar absorption lines of nearby stars, that the Sun is in an ...
Eberhard Möbius
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Shaken or Stirred: The Diffuse Interstellar Medium with Exceptionally High SiO Abundance
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Interstellar shocks, a key element of stellar feedback processes, shape the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) and are essential for the chemistry, thermodynamics, and kinematics of interstellar gas.
Daniel R. Rybarczyk +2 more
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Molecular Precursors of the RNA-World in Space: New Nitriles in the G+0.693−0.027 Molecular Cloud
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Nitriles play a key role as molecular precursors in prebiotic experiments based on the RNA-world scenario for the origin of life. These chemical compounds could have been partially delivered to the young Earth from extraterrestrial objects, stressing the
Víctor M. Rivilla +15 more
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Large Interstellar Polarisation Survey, II : UV/optical study of cloud-to-cloud variations of dust in the diffuse ISM [PDF]
, 2018 It is well known that the dust properties of the diffuse interstellar medium exhibit variations towards different sight-lines on a large scale. We have investigated the variability of the dust characteristics on a small scale, and from cloud-to-cloud. We
Bagnulo, S +5 more
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High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases as Minerals
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 11-23., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Oliver Tschauner
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Dust in the Local Interstellar Wind [PDF]
, 1999 The gas-to-dust mass ratios found for interstellar dust within the Solar System, versus values determined astronomically for the cloud around the Solar System, suggest that large and small interstellar grains have separate histories, and that large ...
Dorschner, J. M. +15 more
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