FD. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008 - 8:30am

Room: 1015 MCPHERSON LAB


Chair: ANTHONY REMIJAN, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA


FD01 15min8:30
SPECTROSCOPY AND STRUCTURE OF CHAINS TYPE Cn, CnH and CnSi.

M. L. SENENT, Departamento de Astrofísica Molecular e Infrarroja, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, C.S.I.C., Madrid 28006, Spain.; M. HOCHLAF, Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle (FRE 3160 CNRS), Champs sur Marne, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée,Cedex 2, France.; H. MASSÓ, Departamento de Astrofísica Molecular e Infrarroja, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, C.S.I.C., Madrid 28006, Spain.; N. INOSTROZA, Universidad Andrés Bello, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Santiago, Chile..

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FD02 15min8:47
LABORATORY AND ASTRONOMICAL DETECTION OF CYANIC ACID, HOCN.

SANDRA BRÜNKEN, CARL A. GOTTLIEB, MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; ARNAUD BELLOCHE, KARL M. MENTEN, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany.

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FD03 15min9:04
LABORATORY AND TENTATIVE ASTRONOMICAL DETECTION OF THIOCYANIC ACID, HSCN.

SANDRA BRÜNKEN, ZHENHONG YU, MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, CARL A. GOTTLIEB, PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; ARNAUD BELLOCHE, KARL M. MENTEN, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany.

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FD04 15min9:21
LABORATORY AND ASTRONOMICAL DETECTION OF THE NEGATIVE MOLECULAR ION C3N-.

CARL A. GOTTLIEB, PATRICK THADDEUS, SANDRA BRÜNKEN, MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; MARCELINO AGÚNDEZ, JOSE CERNICHARO, Department of Molecular and Infrared Astrophysics, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, 28006 Madrid, Spain; MICHEL GUÉLIN, Insitut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, 38406 St. Martin d'Hères; and LERMA/Ecole Normale Superieure, 75231 Paris, France.

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FD05 15min9:38
A SEARCH FOR INTERSTELLAR H2DO+.

CHRISTOPHER P. MORONG, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago; SHUJI SAITO, TAKASHI FURUYA, Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan; HIROKO SHINNAGA, Caltech Submillimeter Observatory; TAKESHI OKA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago.

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INTERMISSION


FD06 10min10:10
SEARCHES FOR beta-ALANINE AND PYRIMIDINE TOWARD ORION-KL.

R. FUJIMORI, K. KAWAGUCHI, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; T. NAKAJIMA, H. OGAWA, Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University,Osaka 599-8531, Japan.

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FD07 15min10:22
DETECTION OF THE CCP RADICAL (X2 Pir) IN IRC+10216: A NEW INTERSTELLAR PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING SPECIES.

D. T. HALFEN, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721; D. J. CLOUTHIER, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506; AND L. M. ZIURYS, Department of Chemistry, Department of Astronomy, and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721.

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FD08 15min10:39
QUANTUM CHEMICAL CLUSTER STUDIES OF ICE-BOUND REACTIONS OF FORMALDEHYDE (H2CO), ACETALDEHYDE (CH3CHO), OR ACETONE (CH3COCH3) WITH AMMONIA (NH3).

DAVID E. WOON AND DOROTHY J. MILLER, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801.

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FD09 15min10:56
AB INITIO PREDICTIONS FOR HO2+: THEORETICAL GUIDANCE FOR AN ASTRONOMICAL DETECTABILITY STUDY.

DAVID E. WOON, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801; SUSANNA L. WIDICUS WEAVER, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; BRANKO RUSCIC, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801.

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FD10 15min11:13
IS HO2+ A DETECTABLE INTERSTELLAR MOLECULE?.

SUSANNA L. WIDICUS WEAVER, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; DAVID E. WOON, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; BRANKO RUSCIC, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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FD11 15min11:30
THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE FOR THE REACTIONS H3++CO rightarrow H2+HCO+ and ~H3++CO rightarrow H2+HOC+.

HUI LI, TAKAYOSHI AMANO AND ROBERT J. LE ROY, Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada; TSUNEO HIRANO, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan.

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