New organic molecule in space

IRAM, the "Institute for Radio Astronomy at Millimeter wavelengths", is a joint German-French-Spanish radio astronomy venture which runs the 30m radio telescope on Pico Veleta in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain and also the Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French alps near Grenoble. Both facilities were utilized for the first detection of amino acetonitrile described here.

ATCA, the "Australia Telescope Compact Array", is an array of six 22-m antennas located about 25 km west of the town of Narrabri, about 500 km north-west of Sydney, Australia. It is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF).

Related links:

[1] Millimeter & Submillimeter Astronomy Group at MPIfR
http://www.mpifr.de/old_mpifr/div/mm/

[2] Die Suche nach Biomolekülen in Interstellaren Wolken (in German)
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/old_mpifr/research/highlight/yearbook04b/

[3] Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy, with a reference list of all 140 molecules presently known in space
http://www.ph1.uni-koeln.de/vorhersagen/

[4] Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/english/

[5] Institut für Radioastronomie im Millimeterbereich (IRAM), Grenoble, France
http://www.iram.fr/

[6] Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), Sydney, Australia
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/

[7] IRAM 30m telescope
http://www.iram.fr/IRAMES/

[8] ATCA interferometer
http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/

[9] Plateau de Bure interferometer
http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/index.htm

Original work:

Detection of amino acetonitrile in Sgr B2(N)
A. Belloche, K. M. Menten, C. Comito, H. S. P. Müller, P. Schilke, J. Ott, S. Thorwirth, C. Hieret
Astronomy & Astrophysics (in press), [DOI 10.1051/0004-6361: 20079203]