Astrochem Coffee

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2025.

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Special guests Patrick Sheehan and Jane Huang.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

2:18 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Patrick

13:12 - Advert: Thanksgiving at Starducks

14:27 - Grab & Go Papers

27:16 - Advert: GobbleStopper

28:21 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Jane

41:20 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

49:19 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2025.

Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ilsa

38:22 - Advert: Fall Flavors at Starducks

39:19 - Grab & Go Papers

51:31 - Advert: LeafBeGone 3000

52:28 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

58:51 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Papers and Links from the Percolator:

• Orion Survey: Sutton et al. 1985 ApJS 58, 341
• Sgr B2 Survey: Nummelin et al. 1998 ApJS 117, 427
• TMC-1 Survey: Kaifu et al. 2004 PASJ 56, 69
• PRIMOS (Sgr B2): Neill et al. 2012 ApJ 755, 153
• TMC-1 GOTHAM: Xue et al. 2025 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06256)
• ASAI: Lefloch et al. 2018 MNRAS 477, 4792 (https://www.iram.fr/ILPA/LP007/)
• IRC+10216 Survey: Gong et al. 2015 A&A 574, A56
• Herschel HEXOS: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/irsa/10.26131/IRSA510
• ALMA MAPS: https://alma-maps.info/data.html
• CDMS: https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/
• JPL: https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/
• LSD: https://lsd.univ-lille.fr/
• Splatalogue: splatalogue.online
• KIDA: https://kida.astrochem-tools.org/
• UMIST: https://umistdatabase.uk/

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2025.

Guests this month are Jenny Calahan and Martin Cordiner. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Gabi + Jenny

16:25 - Advert: Last Rays Latte from Starducks

17:25 - Grab & Go Papers

30:29 - Advert: SunSlinger

31:45 - Single-Origin Brew: Martin + Brett

59:40 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Jenny's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06613

Martin's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of July 2025.

Guests this month are Becky Rapf and Stephen Kocheril. Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Becky + Brett

12:20 - Advert: Nebula Freeze from Starducks

13:21 - Grab & Go Papers

32:47 - Advert: Solar Eclipse Grilling

33:39 - Single-Origin Brew: Ilsa Cooke + Stephen Kocheril

54:14 - Percolator: The first interstellar comet

1:01 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Stephen's Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02504-y

Chalkboard this month has Jobs, but nothing new.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2025.

Guests this month are Izaskun Jimenez-Serra and Bernadette Broderick. Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Gabi Wenzel co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Franciele + Izaskun

19:34 - Advert: Celestial Cold Brew from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: AstroSnipper 3000

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi Wenzel + Bernadette Broderick

1:02:00 - Barista Bootcamp: Desorption from ices

1:27:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Izaskun's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/03/aa52389-24/aa52389-24.html

Bernadette's Website: https://brodericklab.org/

Bernadette's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09888

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2025.

Guests this month are Ugo Jacovella and Marten Raaphorst. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Divita Gupta + Ugo Jacovella

19:34 - Advert: Solar Sips from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: Sprout-Slinger 360

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex Byrne + Marten Raaphorst

1:02:00 - Special: AI Podcast Discussion

1:27:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Ugo's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00323

Marten's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c0002

Chalkboard this month has Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2025.

Guests this month are Julia Santos and Hayley Bunn. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:36 - Advert: Mother's Day at Starducks

3:05 - Grab & Go Papers

20:55 - Advert: The Multi Matic

22:49 - Double Shot (Alex Byrne + Julia Santos, Divita Gupta with Hayley Bunn)

54:47 - Percolator: The discovery of exoplanets and our ability to probe their atmospheres

1:04:05 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Julia's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14010

Hayley's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adacea/meta

Chalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2025.

Guests this month are Munan Gong and Wonju Kim. Divita Gupta co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:11 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Munan Gong)

9:29 - Advert: Easter at Starducks

10:25 - Grab & Go Papers

28:05 - Advert: BasketBamboozler 3000

30:15 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita Gupta with Wonju Kim)

47:19 - Percolator: The first detection of a molecule in another galaxy

56:05 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Wonju's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51998-24/aa51998-24.html

Percolator Paper: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1971ApJ...167L..47W

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2025.

Guests this month are Sean Dougherty and Karina Sogomonyan.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:21 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sean Dougherty)

12:13 - Advert: Ides of March at Starducks

13:29 - Grab & Go Papers

29:18 - Advert: Prunus Maximus 3000

31:12 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Karina Sogomonyan)

45:04 - Barista Bootcamp: D/H Ratios and Temperature

52:27 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Karina's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00387

Chalkboard this month has Conferences.

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