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September 2023

Season 2023, Ep. 2

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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