J. Cernicharo, M. Agúndez, C. Cabezas, R. Fuentetaja, B. Tercero, N. Marcelino, Y. Endo, J. R. Pardo, and P. de Vicente
reported on the
Discovery of C₅H⁺ and Detection of C₃H⁺ in TMC-1 with the QUIJOTE Line Survey,
Astron. Astrophys. 657, Art. No. L16 (2022).
Pentadiynylidynium, C₅H⁺, was identified through four successive transitions, J = 7 − 6 near 33.8 GHz to J = 10 − 9 near 48.2 GHz, in the course of a line survey carried out with the 40 m Yebes radio telescope. The molecule is a factor of 3.7 ± 0.5 more abundant than C₃H⁺, which was explained by the reactivity of the latter with H₂ through chemical modeling.

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