Astrochem Coffee

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2025. Guests this month are Ugo Jacovella and Marten Raaphorst. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:37 - Coffee Chat: Divita Gupta + Ugo Jacovella19:34 - Advert: Solar Sips from Starducks21:36 - Grab & Go Papers40:28 - Advert: Sprout-Slinger 36042:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex Byrne + Marten Raaphorst 1:02:00 - Special: AI Podcast Discussion1:27:00 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Ugo's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00323Marten's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c0002Chalkboard this month has Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2025. Guests this month are Julia Santos and Hayley Bunn. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:36 - Advert: Mother's Day at Starducks3:05 - Grab & Go Papers20:55 - Advert: The Multi Matic22:49 - Double Shot (Alex Byrne + Julia Santos, Divita Gupta with Hayley Bunn)54:47 - Percolator: The discovery of exoplanets and our ability to probe their atmospheres1:04:05 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Julia's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14010Hayley's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adacea/metaChalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2025. Guests this month are Munan Gong and Wonju Kim. Divita Gupta co-hosts.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:11 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Munan Gong)9:29 - Advert: Easter at Starducks10:25 - Grab & Go Papers28:05 - Advert: BasketBamboozler 300030:15 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita Gupta with Wonju Kim)47:19 - Percolator: The first detection of a molecule in another galaxy56:05 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Wonju's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51998-24/aa51998-24.htmlPercolator Paper: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1971ApJ...167L..47WChalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2025. Guests this month are Sean Dougherty and Karina Sogomonyan.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:21 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sean Dougherty)12:13 - Advert: Ides of March at Starducks13:29 - Grab & Go Papers29:18 - Advert: Prunus Maximus 300031:12 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Karina Sogomonyan)45:04 - Barista Bootcamp: D/H Ratios and Temperature52:27 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Karina's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00387 Chalkboard this month has Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of January 2025. Guests this month are Laura Busch and Rachel Gross.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:17 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Laura Busch)8:43 - Advert: Valentine's Day at Starducks9:49 - Grab & Go Papers25:43 - Advert: Idiorama's Snowomatic 500026:59 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Rachel Gross)42:06 - Percolator: The Discovery of Interstellar Deuterium51:33 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.Rachel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06156Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2024. Guests this month are Paola Caselli and Chiara Schleif.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:45 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Paola Caselli)15:12 - Advert: Midnight Manny's Confetti Disposal Service16:24 - Grab & Go Papers29:40 - Advert: Starducks' Resolution Roast30:47 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Chiara Schleif)39:53 - Percolator: The Discovery of H 21cm Line50:18 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.The history of the 21 cm detection of hydrogen in space.Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2024. Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Ilse Cleeves and Shreya Kakkenpara Suresh.Shreya's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa45775-22/aa45775-22.htmlTimestamps0:00 - Intro1:40 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilse Cleeves)16:23 - Advert: Perky Pilgrim Gobble-Gobble Grind17:24 - Grab & Go Papers33:46 - Advert: Pilgrim Pete's Pumpkin Catapults35:24 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Shreya Kakkenpara Sursesh)52:40 - Barista Bootcamp: Protoplanetary Disks1:02:30 - Chalkboard Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.The basics of protoplanetary disks in the Barista Bootcamp.Williams & Cieza "Protoplantery Disks and Their Evolution": https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102548Andrews "Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures": https://annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-031220-010302Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.3c00335Harshal's paper on the laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical discovery of CaC2: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3336 Barista Bootcamp on Cosmic Rays this month!Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. Interstitial clips feature audio from the movie Thor and from the French Chef. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, L20https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ace977Formation of the Methyl Cation by Photochemistry in a Protoplanetary DiskBerné et al. 2023 Nature 621, 56 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06307-xWe 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 diskPerotti et al. (Nature)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06317-9Cracking the Puzzle of CO2 Formation on Interstellar Ices. Quantum Chemical and Kinetic Study of the CO + OH -> CO2 + H ReactionMolpeceres et al. arXiv (A&A)https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04088Special thanks to Giulia Perotti and Thanja Lamberts for authoring these summaries.Finally, we take a look back at the first interstellar detection of formaldehyde (H2CO), the precedents it established that we still use today, and the press stories that surrounded it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.