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.4c00120 Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391 Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer) 19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte 20:58 - Grab & Go Papers 35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone...

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. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:48 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilsa) 20:10 - Advert: Starducks Sweet Potato Hand Pies 21:26 - Grab & Go Papers 34:20 - Advert: LeafCrusher 3000 35:55 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Samantha Scibelli) 55:40 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites 1:01:30 - Chalkboard   Grab & Go summaries for...

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. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:39 - Coffee Chat (Thanja with Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, and...

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...

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...

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:...

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:...

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...

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:...

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....

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...

Our 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 2022 Millar et al. arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03936   Our percolator brought us up to speed on the...

Our 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...

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,...

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...