The SKA as a Prebiotic Molecule Detector
dc.contributor.author | Jiménez Serra, Izaskun | |
dc.contributor.author | Martín Pintado, Jesús | |
dc.contributor.author | Insausti Beiro, Aran | |
dc.contributor.author | Alonso Alonso, Elena Rita | |
dc.contributor.author | Cocinero Pérez, Emilio José | |
dc.contributor.author | Bourke, Tyler L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-19T09:48:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-19T09:48:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9 : (2022) // Article ID 843766 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2296-987X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/56607 | |
dc.description.abstract | [EN] One of the theories for the origin of life proposes that a significant fraction of prebiotic material could have arrived to Earth from outer space between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago. This suggests that those prebiotic compounds could have originated in interstellar space, to be later on incorporated to small Solar-system bodies and planetesimals. The recent discovery of prebiotic molecules such as hydroxylamine and ethanolamine in the interstellar medium, strongly supports this hypothesis. However, some species such as sugars, key for the synthesis of ribonucleotides and for metabolic processes, remain to be discovered in space. The unmatched sensitivity of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) at centimeter wavelengths will be able to detect even more complex and heavier prebiotic molecules than existing instrumentation. In this contribution, we illustrate the potential of the SKA to detect simple sugars with three and four carbon atoms, using a moderate investment of observing time. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | IJ-S and JM-P acknowledge partial support from the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) through project numbers PID 2019-105552RB-C41 and MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu-Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA). EC thanks the support received from the MINECO (PID 2020-117892RB-I00), the Basque Government (IT1162-19 and PIBA 2018-11), the UPV/EHU (PPG17/10, GIU18/207), and CSIC (PIC 2018, LINKA20249). Computational resources and laser facilities of the UPV/EHU (SGIker) and CESGA were used in this work. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIU/MDM-2017-0737 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2019-105552RB-C41 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2020-117892RB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | square kilometre array | es_ES |
dc.subject | complex organic molecules | es_ES |
dc.subject | prebiotic chemistry | es_ES |
dc.subject | interstellar medium | es_ES |
dc.subject | astrochemistry | es_ES |
dc.title | The SKA as a Prebiotic Molecule Detector | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2022 Jiménez-Serra, Martín-Pintado, Insausti, Alonso, Cocinero and Bourke. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.843766/full | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fspas.2022.843766 | |
dc.departamentoes | Química física | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Kimika fisikoa | es_ES |
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