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2003MNRAS.345..650K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 345, 650-656 (2003/October-3)

A search for interstellar pyrimidine.

KUAN Y.-J., YAN C.-H., CHARNLEY S.B., KISIEL Z., EHRENFREUND P. and HUANG H.-C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have searched three hot molecular cores for submillimetre emission from the nucleic acid building block pyrimidine. We obtain upper limits to the total pyrimidine (beam-averaged) column densities towards Sgr B2(N), Orion KL and W51 e1/e2 of 1.7x1014, 2.4x1014 and 3.4x1014 cm–2, respectively. The associated upper limits to the pyrimidine fractional abundances lie in the range (0.3-3)x10–10. Implications of this result for interstellar organic chemistry, and for the prospects of detecting nitrogen heterocycles in general, are discussed briefly.

Abstract Copyright: 2003 RAS

Journal keyword(s): astrobiology - line: identification - ISM: individual: Orion KL - ISM: individual: Sgr B2(N) - ISM: individual: W51 e1/e2 (read: W 51e1,W 51e2) - ISM: molecules

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