Evolution and mass loss of cool aging stars: a daedalean story

L Decin - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
A multitude of phenomena—such as the chemical enrichment of the Universe, the mass
spectrum of planetary nebulae, white dwarfs and gravitational wave progenitors, the …

Chemical equilibrium in AGB atmospheres: successes, failures, and prospects for small molecules, clusters, and condensates

M Agúndez, JI Martínez, PL de Andres… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Chemical equilibrium has proven extremely useful for predicting the chemical composition of
AGB atmospheres. Here we use a recently developed code and an updated thermochemical …

On the potential of silicon as a building block for life

JJ Petkowski, W Bains, S Seager - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite more than one hundred years of work on organosilicon chemistry, the basis for the
plausibility of silicon-based life has never been systematically addressed nor objectively …

ATOMIUM: ALMA tracing the origins of molecules in dust forming oxygen rich M-type stars-Motivation, sample, calibration, and initial results

CA Gottlieb, L Decin, AMS Richards… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
This overview paper presents ATOMIUM, a Large Programme in Cycle 6 with the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The goal of ATOMIUM is to understand the …

Discovery of two new magnesium-bearing species in IRC+ 10216: MgC3N and MgC4H

J Cernicharo, C Cabezas, JR Pardo… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
We report on the detection of two series of harmonically related doublets in IRC+ 10216.
From the observed frequencies, the rotational constant of the first series is B= 1380.888 MHz …

Discovery of SiCSi in IRC+ 10216: A missing link between gas and dust carriers of Si–C bonds

J Cernicharo, MC McCarthy, CA Gottlieb… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery in space of a disilicon species, SiCSi, from observations between 80
and 350 GHz with the IRAM 30 m radio telescope. Owing to the close coordination between …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of carbon chains in IRC+ 10216 mapped with ALMA

M Agúndez, J Cernicharo, G Quintana-Lacaci… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Linear carbon chains are common in various types of astronomical molecular sources.
Possible formation mechanisms involve both bottom-up and top-down routes. We have …

Anharmonic Vibrational Spectroscopy of Germanium-Containing Clusters, GexC4–x and GexSi4–x (x = 0–4), for Interstellar Detection

AM Flowers, A Brown… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
An extensive, high-level theoretical study on tetra-atomic germanium carbide/silicide
clusters is presented. Accurate harmonic and anharmonic vibrational frequencies and …

Discovery of the first Ca-bearing molecule in space: CaNC

J Cernicharo, L Velilla-Prieto, M Agúndez… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
We report on the detection of calcium isocyanide, CaNC, in the carbon-rich evolved star
IRC+ 10216. We derived a column density for this species of (2±0.5)× 10 11 cm− 2. Based …

Abundance of SiC2 in carbon star envelopes-Evidence that SiC2 is a gas-phase precursor of SiC dust

S Massalkhi, M Agúndez, J Cernicharo… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Silicon carbide dust is ubiquitous in circumstellar envelopes around C-rich
asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. However, the main gas-phase precursors leading to …