August 2023

• Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey of the Cygnus-X region (PILS-Cygnus) -- The role of the external environment in setting the chemistry of protostars

Van der Walt et al. arXiv (A&A)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01407

• Surface Diffusion of Carbon Atoms as a Driver of Interstellar Organic Chemistry
  
  Tsuge et al. arXiv
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02181
  
  

• Oxygen-bearing organic molecules in comet 67P's dusty coma: first evidence for abundant heterocycles
  
  Hanni et al. arXiv (A&A)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00343
  
  

• A 3 mm Molecular Line Survey toward The C-star Envelope CIT 6
  
  Yang et al. arXiv (PASJ)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15974
  
  

• The Chemical Inventory of the Inner Regions of Planet-forming Disks -- The JWST/MINDS Program
  
  Kamp et al. arXiv (Faraday Discussions)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16729
  
  

• CoCCoA: Complex Chemistry in hot Cores with ALMA: Selected oxygen-bearing species
  
  Chen et al. arXiv (A&A)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02688
  
  

• New Prebiotic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium from the Reaction Between Vinyl Alcohol and CN Radical: Unsupervised Reaction Mechanism Discovery, Accurate Electronic Structure Calculations and Kinetic Simulations
  
  Ballotta et al. PCCP
  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/CP/D3CP02571C
  
  

• Physical properties of methanol (CH3OH) ice as a function of temperature: Density, infrared band strengths, and crystallization
  
  Carrascosa et al. arXiv
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05980
  
  

• Quantum mechanical modeling of the grain-surface formation of acetaldehyde on H2O:CO dirty ice surfaces
  
  Perrero et al. arXiv (MNRAS)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06492
  
  

• Interaction of H2S with H atoms on grain surfaces under molecular cloud conditions
  
  Santos et al. arXiv (A&A)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07960
  
  

• Investigating Possible Dipole-Bound States of Cyanopolyynes: the Case for the C5N− Anion Detected in Interstellar Space.
  
  Jerosimic et al. Chem Phys Chem
  https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cphc.202300248?af=R
  
  

• The first detection of SiC2 in the interstellar medium
  
  Massalkhi (MASS-AL-KEY) et al. arXiv (A&A)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09459
  
  

• MAPS: Constraining Serendipitous Time Variability in Protoplanetary Disk Molecular Ion Emission
  
  Waggoner et al. arXiv (ApJ)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11699
  
  

• Outflows from the Youngest Stars are Mostly Molecular
  
  Ray et al. Nature
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06551-1
  
  

Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk
Perotti et al. (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06317-9

Cracking the Puzzle of CO2 Formation on Interstellar Ices.  Quantum Chemical and Kinetic Study of the CO + OH -> CO2 + H Reaction
Molpeceres et al. arXiv (A&A)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04088 

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