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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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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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Interstellar cloud morphologies and their origins
Open Astronomy, 1994 Gahm G.F.
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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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Diffuse Interstellar Clouds [PDF]
Highlights of Astronomy, 1992 AbstractDiffuse clouds are interstellar objects through which starlight is not greatly extinguished. As a result, many studies rely on ultraviolet and visible measurements. The focus of this review is on spectroscopic work involving atomic and molecular lines. From these measurements, the physical and chemical makeup of the clouds is derived.
David L. Lambert, S. R. Federman
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The mass spectrum of interstellar clouds [PDF]
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1989 AbstractThe abundance of 21-cm absorption lines seen in surveys at high latitudes can be translated into a line of sight abundance of clouds vs. column density using an empirical relationship between temperature and optical depth. As VLA surveys of 21-cm absorption at low latitudes are now becoming available, it is possible to study the variation of ...
John M. Dickey, Robert W. Garwood
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Learning from model grids: Tracers of the ionization fraction in the ISM [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022 The ionization fraction in neutral interstellar clouds is a key physical parameter controlling multiple physical and chemical processes, and varying by orders of magnitude from the UV irradiated surface of the cloud to its cosmic-ray dominated central ...
Bron Emeric +29 more
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