Interstellar CN at radio wavelengths

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Cyanogen, Interstellar Radiation, Microwave Spectra, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Cyanoacetylene, Free Radicals, H Ii Regions, Hyperfine Structure, Millimeter Waves, Molecular Spectra, Quadrupoles

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Seven of the nine hyperfine lines in the 2.6-mm K = 1 to 0 transition of CN have been observed in many interstellar sources. CN is detected in the direction of infrared sources (with and without associated H II regions), toward at least one star which shows interstellar lines of CH and CH(+), toward several objects regarded as protostellar in nature, but not in dark dust clouds or in several strong sources of HCN and HC3N. Hyperfine transition frequencies are accurately determined by assuming CN velocities are those of several other millimeter-wavelength molecules in the 22 sources we have detected (of 45 searched). New, more accurate values are derived for the rotation constant, spin-doubling constants, and magnetic hyperfine and electric quadrupole coupling constants for the CN radical.

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