An experimental study of the surface formation of methane in interstellar molecular clouds
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2900
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41550-020-1054-y
- Title of journal
- Nature Astronomy
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- First page
- 781
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 8
- ISSN
- 2397-3366
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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6
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- First laboratory evidence for the formation of methane in space through surface reactions on ice grains under cold dark cloud conditions. The work led to invited talks at international conferences/webinars (https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=929, https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/astrochemicalfrontiers/schedule?authuser=0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8__mA36vLk). It aided securing funds to initiate and develop the Center for Interstellar Catalysis (https://phys.au.dk/intercat/); for a PDRA position at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2020 (https://sciences.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/danna.qasim); and three nominations for best PhD Thesis prizes 2020 (http://astro.phys-acs.org/dissertationaward.html, https://www.iau.org/science/grants_prizes/phd_prize/, https://lad.aas.org/prizes/dissertation-prize).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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