===== On the Thiocyanate Radical, NCS, in the ISM =====

 J. Cernicharo, C. Cabezas, M. Agúndez, B. Tercero, J. R. Pardo, N. Marcelino, J. D. Gallego, F. Tercero, J. A. López-Pérez, and P. de Vicente\\
reported on\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140642|TMC-1, the starless core sulfur factory: Discovery of NCS, HCCS, H<sub>2</sub>CCS, H<sub>2</sub>CCCS, and C<sub>4</sub>S and detection of C<sub>5</sub>S]]**\\
//Astron. Astrophys.// **648**, Art. No. L3 (2021).\\
Three <sup>14</sup>N hyperfine components of the <sup>2</sup>Π<sub>3/2</sub> //J// = 5/2 − 3/2 transition of NCS were detected near 42.7 GHz in the course of a molecular line survey of the prototypical cold dark molecular cloud TMC-1 carried out with the Yebes 40 m radio telescope. The column density is slightly higher than those of HSCN and HNCS.\\



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Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 04, 2021


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