Astrochem Coffee

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.4c00120Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer)19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte20:58 - Grab & Go Papers35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone Autumn Parasol36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets1:16:55 - 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.

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.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:48 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilsa)20:10 - Advert: Starducks Sweet Potato Hand Pies21:26 - Grab & Go Papers34:20 - Advert: LeafCrusher 300035:55 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Samantha Scibelli)55:40 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites1:01:30 - 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.

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.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:39 - 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 Tumbler21:44 - Grab & Go Papers34:05 - Advert: Starducks Caprese Panini35:23 - Single-Origin Brew (Alex with Valentine Wakelam)53:27 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites59:49 - 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.

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/2406.16952Chemical Kinetics Papers from Divita and Théo: Product-specific reaction kinetics in continuous uniform supersonic flows probed by chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopyhttps://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/160/20/204201/3295294/Product-specific-reaction-kinetics-in-continuousDesign and Implementation of a New Apparatus for Astrochemistry: Kinetic Measurements of the CH + OCS Reaction and Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in a Cold Uniform Supersonic Flowhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18814The 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.

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.

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/2404.07808Adam'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.

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.

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 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!