Detection of ‘parent’ molecules from the inner wind of AGB stars as tracers of non-equilibrium chemistry
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1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium e-mail: [email protected] 2 Sterrenkundig Instituut Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403 1098 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Institut für Astronomie, ETH Hönggerberg, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] 4 Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DSM CNRS Universit Paris Diderot, DAPNIA/SAp, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France e-mail: [email protected] 5 European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarschild Strasse, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany e-mail: [email protected] 6 MPI für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
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