A Bima Array Survey of Molecules in Comets

We present an interferometric search for large molecules, including methanol (CH3OH), methyl cyanide (CH3CN), ethyl cyanide (CH3CH2CN), ethanol (CH3CH2OH), and methyl formate (CH3OCHO), in comets LINEAR (C/2002 T7) and NEAT (C/2001 Q4) with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Computational and Information Sciences and Technologies Office, Code 606, Greenbelt, MD 20771 National Research Council Resident Research Associate Current address: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901 email: [email protected] Department of Astronomy, 1002 W. Green St., University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801 email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Leiden Observatory, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands email: [email protected] Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742-2421 email: [email protected] Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125 email: [email protected] Current address: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131 email: [email protected] Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 email: [email protected]