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interstellar molecules

Description: Molecules present in the space between stars, studied in astronomy and astrochemistry to understand interstellar clouds and chemical processes.
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The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy, CDMS
2001 · H. S. P. Müller, S. Thorwirth, et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 1,275
The molecular universe
2013 · A. G. G. M. Tielens · Reviews of Modern Physics · 797
The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2006
2007 · J. Woodall, M. Agúndez, et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 635
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Laboratory confirmation of C60+ as the carrier of two diffuse interstellar bands
2015 · E. K. Campbell, M. Holz, et al. · Nature · 623
A laboratory survey of the thermal desorption of astrophysically relevant molecules
2004 · M. P. Collings, M. A. Anderson, et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 609
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Molecular Clouds
1974 · Peter Goldreich, John Kwan · The Astrophysical Journal · 587
Diffuse Atomic and Molecular Clouds
2006 · Theodore P. Snow, Benjamin J. McCall · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 582
Interstellar Ammonia
1983 · Paul T. P. Ho, Charles H. Townes · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 528
The Formation of Stars
2004 · Steven W. Stahler, Francesco Palla · Wiley eBooks · 511
Non-thermal desorption from interstellar dust grains via exothermic surface reactions
2007 · R. T. Garrod, V. Wakelam, et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 494
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2021 Census of Interstellar, Circumstellar, Extragalactic, Protoplanetary Disk, and Exoplanetary Molecules
2022 · Brett A. McGuire · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 474
Laboratory and Astronomical Identification of the Negative Molecular Ion C 6 H -
2006 · M. C. McCarthy, C. A. Gottlieb, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 463
Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium
1995 · Eric Herbst · Annual Review of Physical Chemistry · 432
2018 Census of Interstellar, Circumstellar, Extragalactic, Protoplanetary Disk, and Exoplanetary Molecules
2018 · Brett A. McGuire · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 416
Interstellar molecule reactions
1976 · William D. Watson · Reviews of Modern Physics · 416
Spectroscopy of the Earth's Atmosphere and Interstellar Medium
1992 · Elsevier eBooks · 387
Laboratory and astronomical identification of cyclopropenylidene, C3H2
1985 · P. Thaddeus, J. M. Vrtilek, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 370
Detection of two interstellar absorption bands coincident with spectral features of C60+
1994 · B. H. Foing, P. Ehrenfreund · Nature · 357
Carbon Monoxide in the Orion Nebula
1970 · R. W. Wilson, K. B. Jefferts, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 354
Carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation in dense interstellar clouds
1984 · W. D. Langer, T. E. Graedel, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 329
A Rigorous Attempt to Verify Interstellar Glycine
2005 · L. E. Snyder, F. J. Lovas, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 328
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Discovery of the Methoxy Radical, Ch 3 O, Toward B1: Dust Grain and Gas-phase Chemistry in Cold Dark Clouds
2012 · J. Cernicharo, N. Marcelino, et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 326
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Evidence for the Molecular Origin of Some Hitherto Unidentified Interstellar Lines
1940 · A. McKellar · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 324
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Discovery of the interstellar chiral molecule propylene oxide (CH 3 CHCH 2 O)
2016 · Brett A. McGuire, P. Brandon Carroll, et al. · Science · 321
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C 60 : Buckminsterfullerene, The Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth
1992 · Harold W. Kroto · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 316
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