Thirty years after an initial, tentative detection, the molecule 26AlF has now been firmly detected in space, by the observation of four different rotational transitions towards stellar merger remnant CK Vul. Curiously, CK Vul and similar objects are unlikely to be major sources of Galactic 26Al.
- Tomasz Kamiński
- Romuald Tylenda
- Nimesh A. Patel
