The sulphur saga in TMC-1: Discovery of HCSCN and HCSCCH

Autor: Nuria Marcelino, Carlos Cabezas, Marcelino Agúndez, José Cernicharo, P. de Vicente, Belén Tercero, Yasuki Endo, Juan R. Pardo
Přispěvatelé: European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Astron Astrophys
ISSN: 1432-0746
0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141297
Popis: 8 pags., 8 figs., 5 tabs.
We report the detection, for the first time in space, of cyano thioformaldehyde (HCSCN) and propynethial (HCSCCH) towards the starless core TMC-1. Cyano thioformaldehyde presents a series of prominent a- and b-type lines, which are the strongest previously unassigned features in our Q-band line survey of TMC-1. Remarkably, HCSCN is four times more abundant than cyano formaldehyde (HCOCN). On the other hand, HCSCCH is five times less abundant than propynal (HCOCCH). Surprisingly, we find an abundance ratio HCSCCH/HCSCN of ∼0.25, in contrast with most other ethynyl-cyanide pairs of molecules for which the CCH-bearing species is more abundant than the CN-bearing one. We discuss the formation of these molecules in terms of neutral-neutral reactions of S atoms with CH2CCH and CH2CN radicals as well as of CCH and CN radicals with H2CS. The calculated abundances for the sulphur-bearing species are, however, significantly below the observed values, which points to an underestimation of the abundance of atomic sulphur in the model or to missing formation reactions, such as ion-neutral reactions.
This research has been funded by ERC through grant ERC-2013-Syg-610256-NANOCOSMOS. Authors also thank Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) for funding support through projects AYA2016-75066-C2-1-P, PID2019-106235GB-I00 and PID2019-107115GBC21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. MA thanks Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for grant RyC-2014-16277. YE thanks Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, for grant No. MOST 108-2113-M-009-025 and MOST 108- 2811-M-009-520.
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