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Astrochem Coffee

Brett McGuire

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 37

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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July 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 7

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 01:07:56

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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June 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 6

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 • Duration 57:36

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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September 2023

Season 2023 · Episode 2

Saturday, October 7, 2023 • Duration 53:23

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 ()

August 2023

Season 2023 · Episode 1

Monday, September 4, 2023 • Duration 31:37

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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May 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 5

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 01:08:03

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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April 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 4

Sunday, May 5, 2024 • Duration 01:16:24

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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March 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 3

Friday, April 5, 2024 • Duration 01:06:17

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

Season 2024 · Episode 2

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 • Duration 01:01:00

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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January 2024

Season 2024 · Episode 1

Sunday, February 4, 2024 • Duration 47:47

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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December 2023

Season 2023 · Episode 5

Monday, January 1, 2024 • Duration 58:29

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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