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A&A
Volume 610, February 2018
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Article Number | A44 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731515 | |
Published online | 26 February 2018 |
Submillimeter wave spectroscopy of ethyl isocyanide and its searches in Orion★
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes, et Molécules, UMR CNRS 8523, Université de Lille I,
59655
Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France
e-mail: laurent.margules@univ-lille1.fr
2
Grupo de Astrofísica Molecular, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC),
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3,
28049
Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
3
Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6226,
11 Allée de Beaulieu, CS 50837,
35708
Rennes Cedex 7, France
Received:
5
July
2017
Accepted:
3
November
2017
Context. About 40 cyanide compounds have been detected in the interstellar medium, but only 3 examples of organic isocyanide compounds were observed in this medium. Ethyl isocyanide is one of the best candidates for possible detection.
Aim. To date, measurements of rotational spectra are limited to 40 GHz. The extrapolation of the prediction in the millimeter wave domain is inaccurate and does not permit an unambiguous detection.
Methods. The rotational spectra were reinvestigated from 0.15 to 1 THz. Using the new prediction, we searched for the compound ethyl isocyanide in Orion KL and Sgr B2.
Results. We newly assigned 2906 transitions and fitted these new data with those from previous studies, reaching quantum numbers up to J = 103 and Ka = 30. The asymmetric top Hamiltonian proposed by Watson in the Ir representation was used for the analysis, and both reductions A and S were tested. The search for CH3CH2NC in Sgr B2 (IRAM 30m) and Orion KL (IRAM 30m, ALMA Science Verification) result in a non-detection; upper limits to the column density were derived.
Key words: ISM: molecules / methods: laboratory: molecular / submillimeter: ISM / molecular data / line: identification
Tables S1–S4 are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/610/A44
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