Non-racemic amino acid production by ultraviolet irradiation of achiral interstellar ice analogs with circularly polarized light

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 727, Issue 2 PART II, 2011, Pages

  De Marcellus, Pierre ^a   Meinert, Cornelia ^b   Nuevo, Michel ^a,c   Filippi, Jean Jacques ^b   Danger, Grégoire ^a,d   Deboffle, Dominique ^a   Nahon, Laurent ^e   Le Sergeant D'Hendecourt, Louis ^a,f   Meierhenrich, Uwe J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Astrochemistry; Comets: general; ISM: molecules; Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960276979     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/727/2/L27     Document Type: Article

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