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A&A
Volume 652, August 2021
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Article Number | A163 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141386 | |
Published online | 27 August 2021 |
Hunting the relatives of benzonitrile: Rotational spectroscopy of dicyanobenzenes★
1
Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay,
91405
Orsay,
France
e-mail: olivia.chitarra@universite-paris-saclay.fr, marie-aline.martin@universite-paris-saclay.fr
2
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge,
MA
02139,
USA
3
Department of Chemistry, University of California,
Davis, One Shields Ave,
Davis,
CA
95616,
USA
4
Dipartimento di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna,
via F. Selmi 2,
40126
Bologna,
Italy
5
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Charlottesville,
VA
22903,
USA
6
Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 – PhLAM – Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules,
59000
Lille,
France
Received:
26
May
2021
Accepted:
21
June
2021
Context. The recent interstellar detections of –CN containing aromatic species, namely benzonitrile, 1-cyanonaphthalene, and 2-cyanonaphthalene, bring renewed interest in related molecules that could participate in similar reaction networks.
Aims. To enable new interstellar searches for benzonitrile derivatives, the pure rotational spectra of several related species need to be investigated in the laboratory.
Methods. We have recorded the pure rotational spectra of ortho- and meta-dicyanobenzene in the centimetre and millimetre-wave domains. Assignments were supported by high-level quantum chemical calculations. Using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations, we also searched for evidence of these molecules towards TMC-1 using the GOTHAM survey.
Results. Accurate spectroscopic parameters are derived from the analysis of the experimental spectra, allowing for reliable predictions at temperatures of interest (i.e. 10–300 K) for astronomical searches. Our searches in TMC-1 for both ortho- and meta-isomers provide upper limits for the abundances of the species.
Key words: methods: laboratory: molecular / techniques: spectroscopic / astrochemistry / ISM: abundances / submillimeter: general
Data (FITS files) 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/cat/J/A+A/652/A163
© O. Chitarra et al. 2021
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