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Astrochem Coffee Brett McGuire
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A monthly stroll through the latest discoveries in astrochemistry - the study of molecules in space: where they are, how they got there, and what they are doing!
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March 2024
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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February 2024
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/abstractFirst 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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January 2024
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/abstractMcGovern et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407921102NPR 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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December 2023
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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November 2023
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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October 2023
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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