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Título : Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars
Autor : Jiménez Serra, I.
Martín Pintado, J.
Rivilla, V. M.
Rodríguez Almeida, L. F.
Alonso Alonso, E. R.
Zeng, S.
Cocinero, E. J.
Martín, S.
Requeña Torres, M.
Martín Doménech, R.
Testi, L.
Palabras clave : Astrochemistry;Radioastronomy;Molecules;Prebiotic chemistry
Fecha de publicación : 15-sep-2020
Editorial : Mary Ann Liebert Publishers
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2019.2125
Versión del Editor: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2125
Citación : Astrobiology 20(9): 1048-1066(2020)
Resumen : In the past decade, astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of complex organic molecules. Some of these species are of prebiotic interest such as glycolaldehyde, the simplest sugar, or aminoacetonitrile, a possible precursor of glycine. Recently, we have reported the detection of two new nitrogen-bearing complex organics, glycolonitrile and Z-cyanomethanimine, known to be intermediate species in the formation process of ribonucleotides within theories of a primordial RNA-world for the origin of life. In this study, we present deep and high-sensitivity observations toward two of the most chemically rich sources in the galaxy: a giant molecular cloud in the center of the Milky Way (G + 0.693-0.027) and a proto-Sun (IRAS16293-2422 B). Our aim is to explore whether the key precursors considered to drive the primordial RNA-world chemistry are also found in space. Our high-sensitivity observations reveal that urea is present in G + 0.693-0.027 with an abundance of similar to 5 x 10(-11). This is the first detection of this prebiotic species outside a star-forming region. Urea remains undetected toward the proto-Sun IRAS16293-2422 B (upper limit to its abundance of <= 2 x 10(-11)). Other precursors of the RNA-world chemical scheme such as glycolaldehyde or cyanamide are abundant in space, but key prebiotic species such as 2-amino-oxazole, glyceraldehyde, or dihydroxyacetone are not detected in either source. Future more sensitive observations targeting the brightest transitions of these species will be needed to disentangle whether these large prebiotic organics are certainly present in space.
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/270
E-ISSN : 1557-8070
ISSN : 1531-1074
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