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 …

Formation of complex organic molecules in hot molecular cores through nondiffusive grain-surface and ice-mantle chemistry

RT Garrod, M **, KA Matis, D Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new, more comprehensive model of gas–grain chemistry in hot molecular cores is
presented, in which nondiffusive reaction processes on dust-grain surfaces and in ice …

Astrochemical evolution along star formation: overview of the IRAM Large Program ASAI

B Lefloch, R Bachiller, C Ceccarelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Evidence is mounting that the small bodies of our Solar system, such as comets and
asteroids, have at least partially inherited their chemical composition from the first phases of …

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 …

The ALMA-PILS survey: inventory of complex organic molecules towards IRAS 16293–2422 A

S Manigand, JK Jørgensen, H Calcutt… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Complex organic molecules are detected in many sources in the warm inner
regions of envelopes surrounding deeply embedded protostars. Exactly how these species …

Seeds of life in space (SOLIS): the organic composition diversity at 300–1000 au scale in solar-type star-forming regions

C Ceccarelli, P Caselli, F Fontani, R Neri… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Complex organic molecules have been observed for decades in the interstellar medium.
Some of them might be considered as small bricks of the macromolecules at the base of …

Ingredients for solar-like systems: protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B versus comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

MN Drozdovskaya, EF van Dishoeck… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Our modern day Solar System has 4.6× 109 yr of evolution behind it with just a
few relics of its birth conditions remaining. Comets are thought to be some of the most …

The ice composition in the disk around V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst

JE Lee, S Lee, G Baek, Y Aikawa, L Cieza, SY Yoon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Complex organic molecules (COMs), which are the seeds of prebiotic material and
precursors of amino acids and sugars, form in the icy mantles of circumstellar dust grains but …

A Search for Heterocycles in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1

TJ Barnum, MA Siebert, KLK Lee… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We have conducted an extensive search for nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-bearing
heterocycles toward Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TMC-1) using the deep, broadband …

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 …