Selected publications
2026
– Tajuelo-Castilla, G. Santoro, G., Martínez, L., Merino, P., Martínez, J. I., de Andres, P. L., Ellis, G. J., Mayoral, A., Peláez, R. J., Tanarro, I., Agúndez, M., Wiersma, S., Sabbah, H., Cernicharo, J., Joblin, C., Martín-Gago, J.-A., The important role of hydrogen in the formation of silicon carbide in evolved stars, Nature Astron. (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02854-1
-Lozano, A. I., Bonnamy, A., Simon, A., Joblin, C., Acenaphthene Derivatives as Signatures of C11H9+ Reactivity with Methylated Naphthalenes, ACS Earth Space Chem. (2026), DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00386, hal-05447383v2
2025
– Singh, D. K., Biennier, L., Simon, A., Chakraborty, S., Dartois, E., Georges, R., Kassi, S., Chandrasekaran, V., Sabbah, H., Joblin, C., Ranjan, S., Suwas, S., Gopalan, J., Arunan, E., Shock-induced evolution: Tracing the fate of coronene in astrophysical environments, Astron. & Astrophys. 704 (2025), id.A345, 22 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556417, hal-05407104
– Lozano, A. I., Bonnamy, A., Simon, A., Joblin, C., Long-Lived Isomers of C11H9+: New Experimental Insights from the PIRENEA Setup, ACS Earth Space Chem. 9 (2025), 2017−2032, DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00071, hal-05138427
– Schroetter, I., Berné, O., Bron, E., Alarcon, F., Amiot, P., Bergin, E. A., Boersma, C., Cami, J., Coleman, G. A. L., Dartois, E., Fuente, A., Goicoechea, J. R., Habart, E., Haworth, T. J., Joblin, C., Le Petit, F., Onaka, T., Peeters, E., Rölling, M., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Zannese, M., A solar C/O ratio in planet-forming gas at 1 au in a highly irradiated disk, Nature Astron. 9 (2025), p. 1326-1336, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02596-6, arXiv:2505.22314
-Goicoechea, J. R., Pety, J., Cuadrado, S., Berné, O., Dartois, E., Gerin, M., Joblin, C. et al., PDRs4All: XII. Far-ultraviolet-driven formation of simple hydrocarbon radicals and their relation with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Astron. & Astrophys. 696 (2025), id.A100, 23 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453350, arXiv:2503.03353
2024
– Sabbah, H., Quitté, G., Demyk, K., Joblin, C., First direct detection of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on asteroid (162173) Ryugu samples: An interstellar heritage, Nat. Sci. (2024), e20240010, DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20240010, hal-04684653
– Bernard, J., Martin, S., Al-Mogeeth, A., Joblin, C., Ji, MC, Zettergren, H., Cederquist, H., Stockett, M. H., Indrajith, S., Dontot, L., Spiegelman, F., Toublanc, D., Rapacioli, M., Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C10H8)2+, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 26 (27) (2024), 18571-18583, DOI: 10.1039/D4CP01200C, hal-04621426
– Ebenbichler, A., Smoker, J. V., Lallement, R., Farhang, A., Cox, N. L. J., Joblin, C., van Loon, J. Th., Linnartz, H., Przybilla, N., Ehrenfreund, P., Cami, J., Cordiner, M., The EDIBLES Survey. VIII. Band profile alignment of diffuse interstellar bands, Astron. & Astrophys. 686 (2024), id.A50, 53 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348871, arXiv:2403.00547, hal-04800606
– Schroetter, I., Berné, O., Joblin, C., et al., PDRs4All. VII. The 3.3 μm aromatic infrared band as a tracer of physical properties of the interstellar medium in galaxies, Astron. & Astrophys. 685 (2024), id.A78, 9 pp, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202348974, arXiv:2402.16535, hal-04575426
– M. Nair, A., Leboucher, H., Toucouere, L., Zamith, S., Joblin, C., L’Hermite, J.-M., Marciniak, A., Simon, A., Diversity of protonated mixed pyrene–water clusters investigated by collision induced dissociation, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 26 (7) (2024), 5947-5961, DOI:10.1039/D3CP05734H, hal-04397264
2023
– Zamith, S., Kassem, A., L’Hermite, J.-M., Joblin, C., Cuny, J., Threshold collision induced dissociation of protonated water cluster”, J. Chem. Phys. 159, Issue18 (2023), id.184302, 13 pp., DOI:10.1063/5.0167551, hal-04282314
– Berné, O., Martin-Drumel, M.-A., Schroetter, I., et al., Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a protoplanetary disk, Nature 621, Issue 7977 (2023), p.56-59, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06307-x, hal-0420738
– Velilla-Prieto, L., Fonfría, J. P., Agúndez, M., Castro-Carrizo, A., Guélin, M., Quintana-Lacaci, G., Cherchneff, I., Joblin, C., McCarthy, M. C., Martín-Gago, J. A., Cernicharo, J., Atmospheric molecular blobs shape up circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars, Nature 617, Issue 7962 (2023), p.696-700, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05917-9, insu-04473195
– Garcia, G. A., Dontot, L., Rapacioli, M., Spiegelman, F., Bréchignac, P., Nahon, L., and Joblin, C., Electronic effects in the dissociative ionisation of pyrene clusters, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 (2023), 4501-4510, DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05679h, hal-04031689
2022
-Berné, O., Foshino, S., Jalabert, F., Joblin, C., Contribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ionization to neutral gas heating in galaxies: model versus observations, Astron. & Astrophys. 667 (2022), A159, hal-03871916, arXiv:2208.08762
– Vinitha, M. V., Mundlapati, V. R., Marciniak, A., Carlos, M., Sabbah, H., Bonnamy, A., Noguès, L., Murat, D., Coeur-Joly, O., Joblin, C., Isomer Differentiation of Trapped C16H10+ Using Low-Energy Collisions and Visible/VUV Photons, J. Phys. Chem. A 126 (2022), 5632−5646, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03304, hal-03752756
– Zamith, S., Kassem, A., L’Hermite, J.-M., and Joblin, C., Water Attachment onto Size-Selected Cationic Pyrene Clusters, J. Phys. Chem. A 126 (2022), 3696−3707, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02195, hal-03691697
– Sabbah, H., Carlos, M., Jenniskens, P., Shaddad, M.H., Duprat, J., Goodrich, C. A. Joblin, C., Detection of Cosmic Fullerenes in the Almahata Sitta Meteorite: Are They an Interstellar Heritage?, Astrophys. J. 931 (2) (2022), id.91, 12 pp., DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac69dd, hal-03752937
-Wenzel, G., Simon, A., Banhatti, S., Jusko, P., Schlemmer, S., Brünken, S., Joblin, C., Infrared spectroscopy of the benzylium-like (and tropylium-like) isomers formed in the –H dissociative ionization of methylated PAHs, J. Mol. Spec. 385 (2022), 111620, DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2022.111620, HAL Id : insu-03672040
2021
– Marciniak, A., Joblin, C., Mulas, G., Rao Mundlapati, V., and Bonnamy, A., Photodissociation of aliphatic PAH derivatives under relevant astrophysical conditions, Astron. & Astrophys. 652 (2021), A42, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140737, hal-03188560
– Chakraborty, S., Mulas, G., Rapacioli, M., Joblin, C., Modeling Anharmonic Infrared Spectra of Thermally Excited Pyrene (C16H10): the combined view of DFT AnharmonicCaOs and approximate DFT molecular dynamics, J. Mol. Spec. 378 (2021), 111466, DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2021.111466, hal-03228099, arXiv: 2102.06582
– Bérard, R., Makasheva, K., Demyk, K., Simon, A., Nuñez Reyes, D., Mastrorocco, F., Sabbah, H. and Joblin, C., Impact of metals on (star)dust chemistry: a laboratory astrophysics approach, Front. astron. space sci. Vol. 8 (2021), Art. 654879, DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2021.654879, hal-03367300
– Sabbah, H., Commodo, M., Picca, F., De Falco, G., Minutolo, P., D’Anna A., Joblin C., Molecular content of nascent soot: Family characterization using two-step laser desorption laser ionization mass spectrometry, Proc. Comb. Inst. 38 (2021), 1241–1248, DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.09.022, hal-03007513
2020
– Wenzel, G., Joblin, C., Giuliani, A., Rodriguez Castillo, S., Mulas, G., Ji, M., Sabbah, H., Quiroga, S., Peña, D., Nahon, L., Astrochemical relevance of VUV ionization of large PAH cations, Astron. & Astrophys. 641 (2020), id.A98, 10 pp, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038139, hal-02555766v2
– Zamith, S., L’Hermite, J.-M., Dontot, L., Zheng, L., Rapacioli, M., Spiegelman, F., and Joblin, C., Threshold collision induced dissociation of pyrene cluster cations, J. Chem. Phys. 153 (2020), 054311 (14pp), DOI: 10.1063/5.0015385, hal-02915964
– Joblin, C., Wenzel, G., Rodriguez Castillo, S., Simon, A., Sabbah, H., Bonnamy, A., Toublanc, D., Mulas, G., Ji, M., Giuliani, A., Nahon, L., Photo-processing of astro-PAHs, J. Phys.: Conf. Series 1412 (6) (2020), id. 062002, DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1412/6/062002, hal-02396783
– Santoro, G., Martínez, L., Lauwaet, K., Accolla, M., Tajuelo-Castilla, G., Merino, P., Sobrado, J. M., Peláez, R. J., Herrero}, V. J., Tanarro, I., Mayoral, Á, Agúndez, M., Sabbah, H., Joblin, C., Cernicharo, J., Martín-Gago, J. Á, The Chemistry of Cosmic Dust Analogs from C, C2, and C2H2 in C-rich Circumstellar Envelopes, Astrophys. J. 895 (2020), id.97 (13 pp), DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9086, hal-03085455
– Martínez, L., Santoro, G., Merino, P., Accolla, M., Lauwaet, K., Sobrado, J., Sabbah, H., Pelaez, R., Herrero, V., Tanarro, I., Martínez, J. I., Agundez, M., Mayoral, A., Martín, A., Otero, R., de Andrés, P., Ellis, G. J., Joblin C., Cernicharo J. and Martín-Gago J. A., Prevalence of non-aromatic carbonaceous molecules in the inner regions of circumstellar envelopes, Nature Astron. 4 (2020), 97-105, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0899-4, hal-03085475
2019
– Zamith, S., Ji, M., L’Hermite, J.-M., Joblin, C., Dontot, L., Rapacioli, M. and Spiegelman, F., Thermal evaporation of Pyrene clusters, J. Chem. Phys. 151 (2019), 194303 (14pp), DOI: 10.1063/1.5100264, hal-02375800
– Foshino, S.,
Berné, O., Joblin, C., Learning mid-IR emission spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon populations from observations, Astron. & Astrophys. 632 (2019), id. A84, 30 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935085, hal-02357089, arXiv: 1910.10450
– Chakraborty, S., Mulas, G, Demyk, K., Joblin, C., Experimental Approach to the Study of Anharmonicity in the Infrared Spectrum of Pyrene from 14 to 723 K, J. Chem. Phys. A 123 (19) (2019), 4139–4148, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b11016, hal-02089780
2018
– Jusko, P., Simon, A., Banhatti, S., Brünken, S., and Joblin, C., Direct Evidence of the Benzylium and Tropylium Cations as the two long-lived Isomers of C7H7+, ChemPhysChem 19 (2018), 3182-3185, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800744, hal-01880438
– Mulas, G.,
Falvo, C., Cassam-Chenaï, P., Joblin, C., Anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy of PAHs, J. Chem. Phys. 149 (2018), 144102 (16pp), DOI: 10.1063/1.5050087, hal-01890989
– Joblin, C., Bron, E., Pinto, C., Pilleri, P., Gerin, M., Le Bourlot, J., Le Petit, F., Fuente, A., Berne, O., Goicoechea, J. R., Habart, E., Köhler, M., Teyssier, D., Nagy, Z., Montillaud, J., Vastel, C., Cernicharo, J., Röllig, M., Ossenkopf V. (WADI team), and Bergin E. A. (HEXOS team), Structure of photodissociation fronts in star-forming regions revealed by observations of high-J CO emission lines with Herschel, Astron. & Astrophys. 615 (2018), id.A129, 20 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832611, hal-02021072, arXiv: 1801.03893, PMC6120684
– Jusko, P., Simon, A., Wenzel, G., Brünken, S. Schlemmer, S., Joblin, C., Identification of the fragment of the 1-methylpyrene cation by mid-IR spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. Lett. 698 (2018), 206-210, DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.03.028, hal-01675239v2
– West, B., Rodriguez Castillo, S., Sit, A., Mohamad, S., Lowe B., Joblin, C., Bodi, A., Mayer, P. M., Unimolecular Reaction Energies for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Ions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20 (2018), 7195-7205, hal-01814771, PMC6031295
– Rodriguez Castillo, S., Simon, A., Joblin, C., Investigating the importance of edge-structure in the loss of H/H2 of PAH cations: the case of dibenzopyrene isomers, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 429 (2018), 189-197, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2017.09.013, hal-01833369, arXiv: 1711.03046, PMC6120680
– Joblin, C. and Cernicharo, J., Detecting the building blocks of aromatics, Science 359 (2018), 156-157
2017
– Joblin, C., Dontot, L., Garcia, G.A., Spiegelman, F, Rapacioli, M., Nahon, L., Parneix, P., Pino, T., Bréchignac, P., Ionization energy of PAH clusters: a combined experimental and theoretical approach, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 (15) (2017), pp 3697–3702, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01546, arXiv:1704.05683
– Berné, O., Cox, N. L. J., Mulas, G., Joblin, C., Detection of Buckminsterfullerene emission in the diffuse interstellar medium, Astron. & Astrophys. 605 (2017), id.L1, 6 pp., DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201630325, hal-02357093
– Sabbah, H., Bonnamy, A., Papanastasiou, D., Cernicharo, J., Martín-Gago, J.-A., Joblin, C., Identification of PAH Isomeric Structure in Cosmic Dust Analogs: The AROMA Setup, Astrophys. J. 843 (2017), id. 34, 8 pp., DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa73dd, arXiv:1705.09974
