3-methoxy-1-propanol Rotational Spectroscopy and Radio Astronomical Search toward NGC 6334I
- 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2Univ. Lille
- 3National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Abstract
The methoxy functionalized alcohol species methoxymethanol and 2-methoxyethanol have recently been identified toward the MM1 protostellar source in the NGC 6334I massive star-forming region. Here we report measurements of portions of the centimeter, millimeter, and submillimeter regions of the rotational spectrum of the most stable conformer of 3-methoxy-1-propanol in order to probe the presence of even larger methoxylated alcohols toward the source. The experimental rotational parameters determined from these spectra were used to simulate the rotational spectrum of 3-methoxy-1-propanol under the physical conditions of the MM1 source and compared to the same Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observational data set of the source in which 2-methoxyethanol was first discovered. No 3-methoxy-1-propanol transitions are identified in the data, and an upper limit on its column density toward the source was determined to be 7.5 · 10 ¹⁵ cm ⁻² . When considering the series of these three methoxy alcohols, the decrease in column density going from 2-methoxyethanol to 3-methoxy-1-propanol is consistent with how the column density of 2-methoxyethanol decreases compared to methoxymethanol.
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BibTeX
@article{stewart20263methoxy1propanol,
title = {{3-methoxy-1-propanol Rotational Spectroscopy and Radio Astronomical Search toward NGC 6334I}},
author = {D. Archie Stewart and Laurent Margulès and Roman A. Motiyenko and Brett A. McGuire},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ae9ead},
url = {https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae9ead},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - 3-methoxy-1-propanol Rotational Spectroscopy and Radio Astronomical Search toward NGC 6334I
AU - D. Archie Stewart
AU - Laurent Margulès
AU - Roman A. Motiyenko
AU - Brett A. McGuire
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
JO - The Astrophysical Journal
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9ead
UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae9ead
AB - The methoxy functionalized alcohol species methoxymethanol and 2-methoxyethanol have recently been identified toward the MM1 protostellar source in the NGC 6334I massive star-forming region. Here we report measurements of portions of the centimeter, millimeter, and submillimeter regions of the rotational spectrum of the most stable conformer of 3-methoxy-1-propanol in order to probe the presence of even larger methoxylated alcohols toward the source. The experimental rotational parameters determined from these spectra were used to simulate the rotational spectrum of 3-methoxy-1-propanol under the physical conditions of the MM1 source and compared to the same Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observational data set of the source in which 2-methoxyethanol was first discovered. No 3-methoxy-1-propanol transitions are identified in the data, and an upper limit on its column density toward the source was determined to be 7.5 · 10 ¹⁵ cm ⁻² . When considering the series of these three methoxy alcohols, the decrease in column density going from 2-methoxyethanol to 3-methoxy-1-propanol is consistent with how the column density of 2-methoxyethanol decreases compared to methoxymethanol.
SN - 0004-637X
SN - 1538-4357
ER -