The detection of interstellar vinyl cyanide (acrylonitrile).
Abstract
Interstellar vinyl cyanide, H2C CH-CN, has been discovered in its 2(11)-2(12) (1372 MHz) transition in Sgr B2. The line is in emission with a peak antenna temperature of 0.036 K. It probably results from maser amplification of the continuum. The total molecular content is uncertain.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- February 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1086/181726
- Bibcode:
- 1975ApJ...195L.127G
- Keywords:
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- Acrylonitriles;
- Interstellar Radiation;
- Masers;
- Microwave Spectra;
- Molecular Spectra;
- Electron Transitions;
- Emission Spectra;
- Line Spectra;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Astrophysics