Efficient stabilization of cyanonaphthalene by fast radiative cooling and implications for the resilience of small PAHs in interstellar clouds

Efficient stabilization of cyanonaphthalene by fast radiative cooling and implications for the resilience of small PAHs in interstellar clouds

Abstract After decades of searching, astronomers have recently identified specific Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in space. Remarkably, the observed abundance of cyanonaphthalene (CNN, C10H7CN) in the Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC-1) is six orders of magnitude higher than expected from astrop...

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Main Authors: Mark H. Stockett, James N. Bull, Henrik Cederquist, Suvasthika Indrajith, MingChao Ji, José E. Navarro Navarrete, Henning T. Schmidt, Henning Zettergren, Boxing Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36092-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36092-0

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