VUV and soft X-ray spectroscopy of an interstellar molecule: Fulminic acid HCNO

VUV and soft X-ray spectroscopy of an interstellar molecule: Fulminic acid HCNO

Author(s): Marius Gerlach

Publication: Bunsen-Magazin 2025, 4, 168-169

Publisher: Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie e.V., Frankfurt

Language: English

DOI: 10.26125/qdby-n510

Abstract: HCNO, fulminic acid, has fascinated chemists since its discovery over 200 years ago. Most recently, HCNO has also become of interest for astrochemistry due to its detection in interstellar space in 2009. In my PhD thesis, which I completed in the group of Prof. Ingo Fischer in Würzburg, we wanted to elucidate the processes induced in HCNO by absorption of interstellar radiation. In this article, I describe in detail our findings regarding the dissociative photoionization of HCNO.

Cite this: M. Gerlach, Bunsen-Magazin 2025, 4, 168-169, DOI: 10.26125/qdby-n510

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