Detection of a new interstellar molecular ion, H2COH+ (protonated formaldehyde)

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 471, Issue 1 PART II, 1996, Pages

  Ohishi, Masatoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Shin Ichi ^a   Amano, Takayoshi ^b   Oka, Hidehiko ^b   Irvine, William M ^c   Dickens, James E ^c   Ziurys, L M ^d   Apponi, A J ^d  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ISM: abundances; ISM: molecules

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PROTON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; GAS; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; SPECTROSCOPY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ASTRONOMY; COSMIC DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; GASES; PROTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030274579     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310325     Document Type: Article

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