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Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering

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Unidentified infrared emission bands are ubiquitous in many astronomical sources. These bands are widely, if not unanimously, attributed to collective emissions from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules, yet no single species of this class has been identified in space. Using spectral matched filtering of radio data from the Green Bank Telescope, we detected two nitrile-group-functionalized PAHs, 1- and 2-cyanonaphthalene, in the interstellar medium. Both bicyclic ring molecules were observed in the TMC-1 molecular cloud. In this paper, we discuss potential in situ gas-phase PAH formation pathways from smaller organic precursor molecules. © 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.

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hal-03195975 , version 1 (12-04-2021)

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B.A. Mcguire, R.A. Loomis, A.M. Burkhardt, K.L.K. Lee, C.N. Shingledecker, et al.. Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering. Science, 2021, 371 (6535), pp.1265-1269. ⟨10.1126/science.abb7535⟩. ⟨hal-03195975⟩
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