Astrochem Coffee

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

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Cecilia Ceccarelli and Zach Fried.

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net. Curated and summarized for you in part this month by Alex Byrne.

Zach's Methoxyethanol Detection Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17341

In the Percolator, we take a look back at the first assignment of a carrier of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands: C60+

Campbell et al. 2015: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14566

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to ChatGPT and our talented voice cast of Rebecca Charbonneau, Camille Lipnicky, and Andy Lipnicky.

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

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Todd Hunter and Martin Cordiner.

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

Cole's ALMA 10 Yrs Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/10246916

In the Percolator, we take a look back at the detection of ethanol in space for the first time.

First Detection of C60 in Space

• Cami et al. 2010: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Sci...329.1180C/abstract

First Detection of C60 in the Lab

Kroto et al. 1985: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985Natur.318..162K

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to ChatGPT!

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

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Cole Wampler and Stefanie Milam.

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

Cole's ALMA 10 Yrs Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/10250161

In the Percolator, we take a look back at the detection of ethanol in space for the first time.

• Zuckerman et al. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975ApJ...196L..99Z/abstract
• McGovern et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407921102
• NPR All Things Considered: https://www.npr.org/2010/07/17/128587208/aged-9-000-years-ancient-beer-finally-hits-stores

Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to ChatGPT and Booze.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2023.

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Abby Waggoner and Moungi Bawendi.

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

Our espresso machine is down, so we’ve got single-origin brew for you rather than a double shot: 2023 Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi

Moungi's Nobel Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUmnviaMkrw

In the new Barista Bootcamp, we learn the basic recipe for SiO production in Shocks.

Chalkboard this month has Awards, Open Positions, and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to Adam Ginsburg.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2023.

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Jenny Bergner and Tom Millar.

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

Our espresso machine is down, so we’ve got single-origin brew for you rather than a double shot:

The UMIST Database for Astrochemistry 2022

Millar et al. arXiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03936

Our percolator brought us up to speed on the journey to the discovery of interstellar H3+.

Chalkboard this month has Awards, Open Positions, and Conferences.

Special thanks this month to Camille Lipnicky and Andy Lipnicky.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2023.

Your host this week is Brett McGuire, with special guests Thanja Lamberts and Brandt Gaches.

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

Our espresso machine is down, so we’ve got single-origin brew for you rather than a double shot:

The Astrochemistry Low-energy Electron Cross-Section (ALeCS) database I. Semi-empirical electron-impact ionization cross-section calculations and ionization rates

Gaches et al. arXiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10739

https://alecs.brandt-gaches.space/

https://github.com/AstroBrandt/ALeCS

Our percolator also acted up a bit this month, and is giving us a look back at the first detections of interstellar molecules in space at all … viewed through the lens of newspaper articles from the years 1937-1941.

Check out the ACS Astrocheminar Webseries, restarting this fall (http://astro.phys-acs.org/AstroCheminar.html).

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2023, recorded live at the Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, WV.

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke.

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

Our Double Shot features two more in-depth recaps of papers from this last month:

First Glycine Isomer Detected in the Interstellar Medium: Glycolamide (NH2COCH2OH)

Rivilla et al.  2023 ApJL 953, L20

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ace977

Formation of the Methyl Cation by Photochemistry in a Protoplanetary Disk

Berné et al. 2023 Nature 621, 56

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06307-x

We have an interview with Green Bank Observatory Scientist Will Armentrout about the 20-m telescope on site and how you can use it for science or education.

Finally, we take a look back at the first interstellar detection of methanol this month.

Check out the ACS Astrocheminar Webseries, restarting this fall (http://astro.phys-acs.org/AstroCheminar.html).

Visit Green Bank for a wonderful tourist experience (https://greenbankobservatory.org/visit/) or propose to use their Open Skies telescopes (https://greenbankobservatory.org/science/gbt-observers/proposals/)

Special thanks to the Green Bank Observatory Staff this month and to Haley Scolati, for provided a Grab & Go summary of her recently published article.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2023.

We've got 14 Grab & Go summaries for you this week (full list on our website: coffee.astrochem.net).

Our Double Shot features two more in-depth recaps of papers from this last month:

Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk

Perotti et al. (Nature)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06317-9

Cracking the Puzzle of CO2 Formation on Interstellar Ices. Quantum Chemical and Kinetic Study of the CO + OH -> CO2 + H Reaction

Molpeceres et al. arXiv (A&A)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04088

Special thanks to Giulia Perotti and Thanja Lamberts for authoring these summaries.

Finally, we take a look back at the first interstellar detection of formaldehyde (H2CO), the precedents it established that we still use today, and the press stories that surrounded it.

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