[Astronomy & Astrophysics] Context. Pre-stellar cores are the sites of the earliest stages of star formation. Dust continuum observations are often used to identify and characterise their properties yet only […]
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Most Close Pairs of Stars Are Born as Cosmic Twins
A new study of infant stars in the Perseus and Orion star-forming regions suggests that most close pairs of stars are born as twins in the same disk, rather than […]
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Formation of N-bearing Complex Organic Molecules in Molecular Clouds: Ketenimine, Acetonitrile, Acetaldimine, and Vinylamine via the UV Photolysis of C2H2 Ice
The solid-state C2H2 chemistry in interstellar H2O-rich ice has been proposed to explain astronomically observed complex organic molecules (COMs), including ketene (CH2CO), acetaldehyde (CH3CHO), and ethanol (CH3CH2OH), toward early star-forming […]