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Special guests Sergio Ioppolo and Ryan Fortenberry.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Sergio

10:16 - Advert: April Drinks at Starducks

11:17 - Grab & Go Papers

26:16 - Advert: BunnyBouncer 3000

27:20 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Ryan

1:02:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

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Special guests Ken Kellerman and Miguel Sanz-Novo with co-host Alana Nisperos.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken

6:38 - Advert: March Drinks at Starducks

7:43 - Grab & Go Papers

24:08 - Advert: ForecastFooler

25:11 - Single-Origin Brew: Alana + Miguel

40:45 - Barista Bootcamp: Optical Depth

53:11 - Chalkboard

Miguel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07365

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

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Special guests Ken Kellerman and Rebecca Charbonneau.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

0:59 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken

7:45 - Advert: February Drinks at Starducks

8:45 - Grab & Go Papers

23:11 - Advert: HeartHelper

24:04 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Rebecca

53:41 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

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Special guests Brenne Gregory and Suchitra Narayanan.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:32 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Brenne

7:42 - Advert: January Drinks at Starducks

8:44 - Grab & Go Papers

20:44 - Advert: ResolutionKeeper

21:44 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Suchitra

29:48 - Percolator: New Telescopes!

35:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

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Special guests Alana Nisperos and Elettra Piacentino.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:35 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Alana

10:30 - Advert: Hot Drinks at Starducks

11:36 - Grab & Go Papers

26:10 - Advert: TangleTamer

27:14 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi + Elettra

39:57 - Percolator: How old is astrochemistry?

52:03 - Chalkboard

Elettra's paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09797v1

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Special guests Patrick Sheehan and Jane Huang.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

2:18 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Patrick

13:12 - Advert: Thanksgiving at Starducks

14:27 - Grab & Go Papers

27:16 - Advert: GobbleStopper

28:21 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Jane

41:20 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

49:19 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences.

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Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ilsa

38:22 - Advert: Fall Flavors at Starducks

39:19 - Grab & Go Papers

51:31 - Advert: LeafBeGone 3000

52:28 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

58:51 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Papers and Links from the Percolator:

• Orion Survey: Sutton et al. 1985 ApJS 58, 341
• Sgr B2 Survey: Nummelin et al. 1998 ApJS 117, 427
• TMC-1 Survey: Kaifu et al. 2004 PASJ 56, 69
• PRIMOS (Sgr B2): Neill et al. 2012 ApJ 755, 153
• TMC-1 GOTHAM: Xue et al. 2025 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06256)
• ASAI: Lefloch et al. 2018 MNRAS 477, 4792 (https://www.iram.fr/ILPA/LP007/)
• IRC+10216 Survey: Gong et al. 2015 A&A 574, A56
• Herschel HEXOS: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/irsa/10.26131/IRSA510
• ALMA MAPS: https://alma-maps.info/data.html
• CDMS: https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/
• JPL: https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/
• LSD: https://lsd.univ-lille.fr/
• Splatalogue: splatalogue.online
• KIDA: https://kida.astrochem-tools.org/
• UMIST: https://umistdatabase.uk/

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Guests this month are Jenny Calahan and Martin Cordiner. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Gabi + Jenny

16:25 - Advert: Last Rays Latte from Starducks

17:25 - Grab & Go Papers

30:29 - Advert: SunSlinger

31:45 - Single-Origin Brew: Martin + Brett

59:40 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Jenny's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06613

Martin's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209

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Guests this month are Becky Rapf and Stephen Kocheril. Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Becky + Brett

12:20 - Advert: Nebula Freeze from Starducks

13:21 - Grab & Go Papers

32:47 - Advert: Solar Eclipse Grilling

33:39 - Single-Origin Brew: Ilsa Cooke + Stephen Kocheril

54:14 - Percolator: The first interstellar comet

1:01 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Stephen's Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02504-y

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Guests this month are Izaskun Jimenez-Serra and Bernadette Broderick. Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Gabi Wenzel co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Franciele + Izaskun

19:34 - Advert: Celestial Cold Brew from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: AstroSnipper 3000

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi Wenzel + Bernadette Broderick

1:02:00 - Barista Bootcamp: Desorption from ices

1:27:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Izaskun's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/03/aa52389-24/aa52389-24.html

Bernadette's Website: https://brodericklab.org/

Bernadette's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09888

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Guests this month are Ugo Jacovella and Marten Raaphorst. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Divita Gupta + Ugo Jacovella

19:34 - Advert: Solar Sips from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: Sprout-Slinger 360

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex Byrne + Marten Raaphorst

1:02:00 - Special: AI Podcast Discussion

1:27:00 - 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.4c00323

Marten's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c0002

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Guests this month are Julia Santos and Hayley Bunn. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:36 - Advert: Mother's Day at Starducks

3:05 - Grab & Go Papers

20:55 - Advert: The Multi Matic

22:49 - Double Shot (Alex Byrne + Julia Santos, Divita Gupta with Hayley Bunn)

54:47 - Percolator: The discovery of exoplanets and our ability to probe their atmospheres

1:04:05 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Julia's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14010

Hayley's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adacea/meta

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Guests this month are Munan Gong and Wonju Kim. Divita Gupta co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:11 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Munan Gong)

9:29 - Advert: Easter at Starducks

10:25 - Grab & Go Papers

28:05 - Advert: BasketBamboozler 3000

30:15 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita Gupta with Wonju Kim)

47:19 - Percolator: The first detection of a molecule in another galaxy

56:05 - 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.html

Percolator Paper: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1971ApJ...167L..47W

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Guests this month are Sean Dougherty and Karina Sogomonyan.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:21 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sean Dougherty)

12:13 - Advert: Ides of March at Starducks

13:29 - Grab & Go Papers

29:18 - Advert: Prunus Maximus 3000

31:12 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Karina Sogomonyan)

45:04 - Barista Bootcamp: D/H Ratios and Temperature

52:27 - 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.

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Guests this month are Laura Busch and Rachel Gross.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:17 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Laura Busch)

8:43 - Advert: Valentine's Day at Starducks

9:49 - Grab & Go Papers

25:43 - Advert: Idiorama’s Snowomatic 5000

26:59 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Rachel Gross)

42:06 - Percolator: The Discovery of Interstellar Deuterium

51:33 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

Rachel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06156

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Guests this month are Paola Caselli and Chiara Schleif.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Paola Caselli)

15:12 - Advert: Midnight Manny’s Confetti Disposal Service

16:24 - Grab & Go Papers

29:40 - Advert: Starducks’ Resolution Roast

30:47 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Chiara Schleif)

39:53 - Percolator: The Discovery of H 21cm Line

50:18 - 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.

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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.html

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:40 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilse Cleeves)

16:23 - Advert: Perky Pilgrim Gobble-Gobble Grind

17:24 - Grab & Go Papers

33:46 - Advert: Pilgrim Pete's Pumpkin Catapults

35:24 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Shreya Kakkenpara Sursesh)

52:40 - Barista Bootcamp: Protoplanetary Disks

1:02:30 - 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-081710-102548
• Andrews "Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures": https://annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-031220-010302

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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 Autumn Parasol

36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)

1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets

1:16:55 - 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.

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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 you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.

The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.

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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 Vincent Esposito)

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21:44 - Grab & Go Papers

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35:23 - Single-Origin Brew (Alex with Valentine Wakelam)

53:27 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites

59:49 - 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.

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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

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/160/20/204201/3295294/Product-specific-reaction-kinetics-in-continuous

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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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.

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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: 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.

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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: 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_Lalande

Histoire Celeste Francaise Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_c%C3%A9leste_fran%C3%A7aise

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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

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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: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Sci...329.1180C/abstract

First Detection of C60 in the Lab

Kroto et al. 1985: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985Natur.318..162K

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Special thanks this month to ChatGPT!

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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/abstract
• McGovern et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407921102
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Special thanks this month to ChatGPT and Booze.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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 rates

Gaches et al. arXiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10739

https://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).

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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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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 of the CO + OH -> CO2 + H Reaction

Molpeceres et al. arXiv (A&A)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04088

Special 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.

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