Astrochem Coffee

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

Guests this month are Laura Busch and Rachel Gross.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:17 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Laura Busch)

8:43 - Advert: Valentine's Day at Starducks

9:49 - Grab & Go Papers

25:43 - Advert: Idiorama’s Snowomatic 5000

26:59 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Rachel Gross)

42:06 - Percolator: The Discovery of Interstellar Deuterium

51:33 - Chalkboard

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

Rachel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06156

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2024.

Guests this month are Paola Caselli and Chiara Schleif.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Paola Caselli)

15:12 - Advert: Midnight Manny’s Confetti Disposal Service

16:24 - Grab & Go Papers

29:40 - Advert: Starducks’ Resolution Roast

30:47 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Chiara Schleif)

39:53 - Percolator: The Discovery of H 21cm Line

50:18 - Chalkboard

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

The history of the 21 cm detection of hydrogen in space.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Ilse Cleeves and Shreya Kakkenpara Suresh.

Shreya's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa45775-22/aa45775-22.html

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:40 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilse Cleeves)

16:23 - Advert: Perky Pilgrim Gobble-Gobble Grind

17:24 - Grab & Go Papers

33:46 - Advert: Pilgrim Pete's Pumpkin Catapults

35:24 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Shreya Kakkenpara Sursesh)

52:40 - Barista Bootcamp: Protoplanetary Disks

1:02:30 - Chalkboard

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

The basics of protoplanetary disks in the Barista Bootcamp.

• Williams & Cieza "Protoplantery Disks and Their Evolution": https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102548
• Andrews "Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures": https://annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-031220-010302

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Sommer Johansen and Gabi Wenzel.

Sommer's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00120

Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer)

19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte

20:58 - Grab & Go Papers

35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone Autumn Parasol

36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)

1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets

1:16:55 - Chalkboard

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

The History of Amino Acid detections in comets in this month's Percolator.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke with special guest Samantha Scibelli.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:48 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilsa)

20:10 - Advert: Starducks Sweet Potato Hand Pies

21:26 - Grab & Go Papers

34:20 - Advert: LeafCrusher 3000

35:55 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Samantha Scibelli)

55:40 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites

1:01:30 - Chalkboard

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

The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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It's our 1 year anniversary, and of course our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Thanja Lamberts, and Alex Byrne with special guests Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, Vincent Esposito, and Valentine Wakelam.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:39 - Coffee Chat (Thanja with Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, and Vincent Esposito)

20:19 - Advert: SipTek Fire & Ice Tumbler

21:44 - Grab & Go Papers

34:05 - Advert: Starducks Caprese Panini

35:23 - Single-Origin Brew (Alex with Valentine Wakelam)

53:27 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites

59:49 - Chalkboard

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

The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Ilsa Cooke, and Alex Byrne with special guests Jessica Perrero, Divita Gupta, and Théo Guillame.

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

Jessica's Paper: Binding energies of ethanol and ethylamine on interstellar water ices: synergy between theory and experiments

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16952

Chemical Kinetics Papers from Divita and Théo:

Product-specific reaction kinetics in continuous uniform supersonic flows probed by chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/160/20/204201/3295294/Product-specific-reaction-kinetics-in-continuous

Design and Implementation of a New Apparatus for Astrochemistry: Kinetic Measurements of the CH + OCS Reaction and Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in a Cold Uniform Supersonic Flow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18814

The History of Cavity-Enhanced Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy in this month's Percolator and Barista Bootcamp.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Interstitial clips feature audio from the French Chef.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Albert Rimola and Will Styers.

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

Albert's Quantum Grain Website: https://www.quantumgrain.eu/

Will's Paper on 3-Furonitrile: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c03093

The History of Cosmic Rays in this month's Percolator.

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to David Neufeld for the impetus to look into the history of cosmic rays.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Rebecca Firth and Harshal Gupta.

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

Rebecca's Paper on AlO, AlOH, and Al(OH)3: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00335

Harshal's paper on the laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical discovery of CaC2: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3336 

Barista Bootcamp on Cosmic Rays this month!

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. Interstitial clips feature audio from the movie Thor and from the French Chef.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2024.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Adam Ginsburg and Bryan Changala.

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

Adam's paper on the discovery of the MUBLO: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07808

Adam's Research Website: https://www.adamgginsburg.com/

Bryan's Paper on the laboratory spectroscopy of MgC4H and MgC3N: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022285224000316?dgcid=rss_sd_all

In the French Press, we took a look back at the earliest identification of VY Canis Majoris.

Jerome Lalande Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Lalande

Histoire Celeste Francaise Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_c%C3%A9leste_fran%C3%A7aise

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. An interstitial clip features audio from the movie Thor.

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