Observations of Formic Acid toward Galactic Hot Molecular Cores

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.9903l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #99.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.995

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

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Formic acid shares similar structural elements with the common interstellar molecule methyl formate (HCOOCH_3) and the elusive biomolecule acetic acid (CH_3COOH). It is the simplest organic acid, but it has only been identified in astronomical sources by fairly weak lines in single-element telescope surveys. In order to study the successive formation of biomolecules such as acetic acid (CH_3COOH) and glycine (CH_3COONH_2) in the ISM, we carried out a survey of HCOOH toward galactic hot molecular cores with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) Array. Up to five transitions with rest frequencies near 87 GHz have been detected simultaneously in three sources: Sgr B2(N), Orion, and W51. HCOOH was found to have an excitation temperature of at least 100 K and column densities above 10(15) cm(-2) . The formation of HCOOH is probably related to grain-surface chemistry in hot cores. Abundance comparisons with other complex O- and N-bearing molecules such as HCOOCH_3 and ethyl cyanide (C_2H_5CN) will be discussed.

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