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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 469, Issue 2, Pages 2230-2234Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx915
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line: identification; instrumentation: interferometers; ISM: abundances; ISM: individual objects: IRAS16293-2422 B
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (MINECO) [AYA2014-60585-P]
- Italian Ministero dell' Istruzione, Universita e Ricerca [CUP C52I13000140001]
- Gothenburg Centre for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology
- FPI grant from Spanish MINECO
- STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship and Grant [ST/L004801/2, ST/M004139/2]
- MINECO [FIS2012-39162-C06-01, ESP2013-47809-C03-01, ESP2015-65597-C4-1]
- STFC [ST/M004139/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M004139/2] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report the detection of the pre-biotic molecule CH3NCO in a solar-type protostar, IRAS16293-2422 B. A significant abundance of this species on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been proposed, and it has recently been detected in hot cores around high-mass protostars. We observed IRAS16293-2422 B with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in the 90 to 265 GHz range, and detected eight unblended transitions of CH3NCO. From our Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium analysis, we derived an excitation temperature of 110 +/- 19 K and a column density of (4.0 +/- 0.3) x 10(15) cm(-2), which results in an abundance of <=(1.4 +/- 0.1) x 10(-10) with respect to molecular hydrogen. This implies a CH3NCO/HNCO and CH3NCO/NH2CHO column density ratios of similar to 0.08. Our modelling of the chemistry of CH3NCO suggests that both ice surface and gas phase formation reactions of this molecule are needed to explain the observations.
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