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July 2024
Season 2024, Ep. 7
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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
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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