Revised Models of Interstellar Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation
E. S. Wirström S. B. Charnley Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stx3030, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3030 Published: 23 November 2017 LINK “Nitrogen-bearing molecules in cold molecular clouds exhibit a range of isotopic fractionation ratios and these…
The path of reduced nitrogen toward early earth: the cosmic trail and its solar shortcuts
Sandra Pizzarello and Maitrayee Bose The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 814, Number 2 LINK “Large isotopic anomalies are found in meteoritic insoluble organic materials (IOMs) and, for nitrogen, show 15N-excesses up to ${\delta }^{15}$N ~ 5000‰….