A Sensitive Very Large Array Search for Small‐Scale Glycine Emission toward OMC‐1

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Abstract

We have conducted a deep Q-band (λ ~ 7 mm) search with the Very Large Array (VLA) toward OMC-1 for the lowest energy conformation (conformer I) of glycine (NH2CH2COOH) in four rotational transitions: 615-514, 624-523, 717-616, and 707-606. Our VLA observations sample the smallest scale structures to date in the search for glycine toward OMC-1. No glycine emission features were detected. Thus, if glycine exists in OMC-1, it is below our detection limit, or it is more spatially extended than other large molecules in this source, or it is primarily in its high-energy form (conformer II). Our VLA glycine fractional abundance limits in OMC-1 are comparable to those determined from previous IRAM 30 m measurements—somewhat better or worse depending on the specific source model—and the entire ~1' primary beam of the VLA was searched while sensitive to an areal spatial scale ~150 times smaller than the 24'' beam of the IRAM single-element telescope. In the course of this work, we detected and imaged the 414-313 A and E transitions of methyl formate (HCOOCH3) and also the 202-101 transition of formic acid (HCOOH). Since formic acid is a possible precursor to glycine, our glycine limits and formic acid results provide a constraint on this potential formation chemistry route for glycine in OMC-1.

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