Laboratory measurements and analysis for two molecules of astrophysical interest: 13C-ethanol and n-butyl cyanide

Details Laboratory measurements and analysis for two molecules of astrophysical interest: 13C-ethanol and n-butyl cyanide Laboratory measurements and analysis for two molecules of astrophysical interest: 13C-ethanol and n-butyl cyanide

May 2011

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The Molecular Universe, Posters from the proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tole

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Ethanol is a complex organic molecule (COM), observed principally in hot core regions in the interstellar medium (e.g. Sgr B2, W51M, Orion KL, G34.3+0.15). The 13C isotopologues have not been identified in the ISM and prior to this work only scarce low-frequency laboratory data were available. Absorption spectra of both 13C isotopologues of ethanol were recorded at Cologne. We measured around 350 lines for the trans configuration of each of the two 13C isotopologues: CH_3^13CH_2OH and ^13CH_3CH_3OH. Measurements were taken in the range 80-600 GHz and a few lines between 700-800 GHz. A comparison between the abundance of the 12C and both 13C species in the ISM could give valuable clues as to the formation of this COM. Furthermore, 13C-ethanol is a potential line pollutant in particular for high-sensitivity instruments such as ALMA. We are currently investigating possible candidates for an astronomical detection of these species. n-propyl cyanide is one of the largest molecules detected in the massive star forming region Sgr B2. The next stage in complexity is n-butyl cyanide CH_3 (CH_2) _3CN for which very high-resolution laboratory data was available (1) but only up to 22 GHz. We hence decided to measure the spectrum between 75 and 130 GHz in order to make accurate predictions over the frequency band of ground-based instruments. Measurements were taken in Cologne using a new solid-state double-pass cell with total path of 44m. We assigned around 3000 transitions corresponding to three conformers (anti-anti, gauche(CN end)-anti, anti-gauche(methyl end) in fits including the lower-frequency hyperfine split data. Lines of the gauche-gauche conformer are also present in the spectra.

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