There is convincing observational evidence that the small objects of our Solar system (comets and asteroids) have retained, at least partially, the chemical composition of the early phases of the protosolar nebula[1] possibly in its prestellar phase, before the onset of the gravitational collapse. Recently, the study of the composition of Comet 67P by the Rosetta space mission has revealed the presence of numerous complex organic molecules (COMs), including glycine, with relative abundances similar to those observed in the interstellar medium.[2] These and many other examples illustrate unambiguously that chemistry in space is efficient and leads to the formation of complex organics, some of prebiotic interest, which may have been inherited by the small bodies of our Solar  system from the earliest stages of star formation. Therefore, it is important to characterize the chemical composition of the neighboring stellar nurseries to understand the origins our own Solar system. In this work,[3,4] we present the results obtained in the molecular survey carried out on the solar-type young stellar object NGC 1333-IRAS 4A, as part of the large Astrochemical Surveys At IRAM (ASAI) program.

Identification of Organic Molecules in the Solar-Type Protostellar Object NGC 1333-IRAS 4A

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