A search for interstellar nitroxyl /HNO/

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Electron Transitions, Hyperfine Structure, Interstellar Gas, Microwave Emission, Molecular Spectra, Nitrogen Compounds, Hydrogen Compounds, Line Spectra, Molecular Energy Levels, Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance, Oxygen Compounds, Radio Astronomy

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A 65-m telescope, a 9-cm parametric receiver, and a 64-channel spectrometer with filters of 33-kHz bandwidth were used to search for the 1(10)-1(11) transition of HNO in the direction of Sgr B2, Sgr A1, W51, and RCW 38. The frequencies of the hyperfine components of this transition were predicted using rotational, centrifugal distortion, and nitrogen nuclear quadrupole coupling constants derived from the analysis of microwave transitions at higher frequencies. Upper limits in antenna temperature for regions explored ranged from 0.02 K to 0.1 K. At present it is not possible, on the basis of information on conditions and processes in the interstellar medium, to translate the antenna-temperature limit of this study into an upper limit on the molecular column number density.

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