===== On Nitrosylium, NO+, in Space ===== J. Cernicharo, S. Bailleux, E. Alekseev, A. Fuente, E. Roueff, M. Gerin, B. Tercero, S. P. Treviño-Morales, N. Marcelino, R. Bachiller, and B. Lefloch,\\ reported on the\\ **[[https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/40|Tentative Detection of the Nitrosylium Ion in Space]]**\\ //Astrophys. J.// **795**, Art. No. 40 (2014).\\ The //J// = 2 – 1 transition of NO+ near 238.4 GHz was idenitified in a line survey of the cold core Barnard 1-b carried out with the IRAM 30 m radio telescope. The two strongest overlapping HFS components were clearly seen in emission. There is also emission at the position of two weaker overlapping HFS components, though noise makes this feature appear stronger than expected. An expected third feature is in the noise. The reported abundance ratios, about similar among NO+ and HNO, and NO being about 500 times more abundant than NO+, are quite reasonable, though agreement with model calculations were not entirely satisfactory for HNO.\\ \\ V. M. Rivilla, J. G. De La Concepción, I. Jiménez-Serra, J. Martín-Pintado, L. Colzi, B. Tercero, A. Megías, Á. López-Gallifa, A. Martínez-Henares, S. Massalkhi, S. Martín, S. Zeng, P. De Vicente, F. Rico-Villas, M. A. Requena-Torres, and G. Cosentino\\ announced\\ **[[https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.829288|Ionize Hard: Interstellar PO+ Detection]]**\\ //Front. Astron. Space Sci.// **9**, Art. No. 829288 (2022).\\ In the course of a molecular line survey of the Galactic center cold molecular cloud G+0.693−0.027 carried out with the Yebes 40 m and IRAM 30 m radio telescopes, the //J// = 2 – 1 transition of NO+ near 238.4 GHz was idenitified. Even though still only one transition has been detected, the identification may be more plausible now. The NO+ to NO ratio was determined as 0.00245 ± 0.00005, very similar to the ratio in the report above. The preferred SO+ to SO ratio in G+0.693−0.027 is 0.0045 ± 0.0003, quite similar, whereas the PO+ to PO ratio was 0.12 ± 0.03. ---- Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 10, 2014; 05, 2022 ----