Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ===== The Detection of Methyl Acetate, CH3OC(O)CH3, in Orion KL ===== B. Tercero, I. Kleiner, J. Cernicharo, H. V. L. Nguyen, A. López, and G. M. Muñoz Caro\\ recently reported on the\\ **[[https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/770/1/L13|Discovery of Methyl Acetate and Gauche Ethyl Formate in Orion]]**\\ //Astrophys. J.// **770**, (2013) Art. No. L13.\\ The detection was made in the course of a molecular line survey carried out with the IRAM 30 m radio telescope. At a rotational temperature of about 150 K, very many transitions of methyl acetate have non-negligible intensities. However, many of them are blended severely with emissions of other molecules. Nevertheless, a considerable number of transitions are not or only slightly blended, such that its detection can be considered secure in spite of many still unassigned lines. Its column density is about a factor of five higher than that derived for ethyl formate in this source. Methyl acetate is the third ester and the first acetate to be detected in the ISM after [[molecules:ism:methylformiat|methyl formate]] and [[molecules:ism:ethylformiat|ethyl formate]]. It is an isomer of ethyl formate. ---- Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 07, 2013 ---- molecules/ism/meac.txt Last modified: 2019/04/24 16:12by mueller