Document detail
ID
oai:arXiv.org:2405.16773
Topic
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Gal... Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar A...Author
Dhariwal, Aditya Speak, Thomas H. Zeng, Linshan Rashidi, Amirhossein Moore, Brendan Berné, Olivier Remijan, Anthony J. Schroetter, Ilane McGuire, Brett A. Rivilla, Víctor M. Belloche, Arnaud Jørgensen, Jes K. Djuricanin, Pavle Momose, Takamasa Cooke, Ilsa R.Category
sciences: astrophysics
Year
2024
listing date
5/29/2024
Keywords
infrared spectra astrophysics data tryptophanAbstract
Infrared emission features toward interstellar gas of the IC 348 star cluster in Perseus have been recently proposed to originate from the amino acid tryptophan.
The assignment was based on laboratory infrared spectra of tryptophan pressed into pellets, a method which is known to cause large frequency shifts compared to the gas phase.
We assess the validity of the assignment based on the original Spitzer data as well as new data from JWST.
In addition, we report new spectra of tryptophan condensed in para-hydrogen matrices to compare with the observed spectra.
The JWST MIRI data do not show evidence for tryptophan, despite deeper integration toward IC 348.
In addition, we show that several of the lines attributed to tryptophan are likely due to instrumental artifacts.
This, combined with the new laboratory data, allows us to conclude that there is no compelling evidence for the tryptophan assignment.
Dhariwal, Aditya,Speak, Thomas H.,Zeng, Linshan,Rashidi, Amirhossein,Moore, Brendan,Berné, Olivier,Remijan, Anthony J.,Schroetter, Ilane,McGuire, Brett A.,Rivilla, Víctor M.,Belloche, Arnaud,Jørgensen, Jes K.,Djuricanin, Pavle,Momose, Takamasa,Cooke, Ilsa R., 2024, On the origin of infrared bands attributed to tryptophan in Spitzer observations of IC 348
