Astrochemistry during the formation of stars

JK Jørgensen, A Belloche… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

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 …

Thermal desorption of interstellar ices: A review on the controlling parameters and their implications from snowlines to chemical complexity

M Minissale, Y Aikawa, E Bergin, M Bertin… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The evolution of star-forming regions and their thermal balance are strongly influenced by
their chemical composition, which, in turn, is determined by the physicochemical processes …

Complex organics in space from Solar System to distant galaxies

S Kwok - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2016 - Springer
Recent observational and experimental evidence for the presence of complex organics in
space is reviewed. Remote astronomical observations have detected ∼∼ 200 gas-phased …

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 ALMA-PILS survey: isotopic composition of oxygen-containing complex organic molecules toward IRAS 16293–2422B

JK Jørgensen, HSP Müller, H Calcutt… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. One of the important questions of astrochemistry is how complex organic
molecules, including potential prebiotic species, are formed in the envelopes around …

Constraining the abundances of complex organics in the inner regions of solar-type protostars

V Taquet, A López-Sepulcre, C Ceccarelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The high abundances of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) with respect to methanol, the
most abundant COM, detected toward low-mass protostars, tend to be underpredicted by …

N-bearing complex organics toward high-mass protostars-Constant ratios pointing to formation in similar pre-stellar conditions across a large mass range

P Nazari, JD Meijerhof, ML van Gelder… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Complex organic species are known to be abundant toward low-and high-mass
protostars. No statistical study of these species toward a large sample of high-mass …

Complex organic molecules in low-mass protostars on Solar System scales-I. Oxygen-bearing species

ML Van Gelder, B Tabone, EF van Dishoeck… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Complex organic molecules (COMs) are thought to form on icy dust grains in the
earliest phase of star formation. The evolution of these COMs from the youngest Class 0/I …

Complex organic molecules in the Galactic Centre: the N-bearing family

S Zeng, I Jiménez-Serra, VM Rivilla… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an unbiased spectral line survey towards the Galactic Centre (GC) quiescent
giant molecular cloud, G+ 0.693 using the GBT and IRAM 30 telescopes. Our study …