Episodes

  • December 2024 - Merry Christmas from Garching
    Jan 4 2025

    Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2024.

    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.


    Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.


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    53 mins
  • November 2024 - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
    Dec 2 2024

    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.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


    Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • October 2024 - Dusty Snowballs
    Nov 1 2024

    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 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.


    Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.


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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • September 2024 - Isotopes, Isotopes Everywhere
    Oct 8 2024

    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 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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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • August 2024
    Sep 8 2024

    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 Vincent Esposito)

    20:19 - Advert: SipTek Fire & Ice Tumbler

    21:44 - Grab & Go Papers

    34:05 - Advert: Starducks Caprese Panini

    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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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • July 2024
    Aug 6 2024

    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 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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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • June 2024
    Jul 2 2024

    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.


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    58 mins
  • May 2024
    Jun 5 2024

    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: 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.


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    1 hr and 8 mins