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Searching for Biomolecules with the ATCA: First Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Maria R. Hunt-Cunningham  and
Paul A. Jones
Maria R. Hunt-Cunningham
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Paul A. Jones
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW, Australia

Abstract

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A search for biologically significant molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) is currently being undertaken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) at millimetre wavelengths. The search includes several chiral molecules, and glycine, the simplest amino acid. Some first results from this search are presented here.

Type
Astrochemistry
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 159 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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