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4. April 2024
01:16:24Our 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/2404.07808Adam'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_LalandeHistoire 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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3. March 2024
01:06:17Our 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.2. February 2024
01:01:00Our 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 SpaceCami et al. 2010: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Sci...329.1180C/abstractFirst Detection of C60 in the LabKroto 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!1. January 2024
47:47Our 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.5. December 2023
58:29Our 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 BawendiMoungi'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.4. November 2023
57:40Our 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 2022Millar et al. arXivhttps://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.3. October 2023
38:32Our 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 ratesGaches et al. arXivhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10739https://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).