Astrochem Coffee (Brett McGuire)

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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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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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

Chalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences.

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