RF. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: LARGE ASTRONOMICAL MOLECULES

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005 - 1:30PM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: PHILIPPE BRECHIGNAC, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

RF01 Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy Review Lecture 30min1:30
DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS: A MAJOR PROBLEM IN ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY.

PETER J. SARRE, School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.

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RF02 15min2:05
LINE PROFILES IN THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS.

MEREDITH M. DROSBACK, THEODORE P. SNOW, University of Colorado, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, 389 UCB, Boulder CO 80309-0389; JULIE A. THORBURN, LEW M. HOBBS, DANIEL E. WELTY, DONALD G. YORK, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Department of Chemistry and Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; PAULE SONNENTRUCKER, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University; SCOTT D. FRIEDMAN, Space Telescope Science Institute; AND BRIAN L. RACHFORD, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College.

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RF03 15min2:22
CORRELATIONS AMONG DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS, ATOMS, AND SMALL MOLECULES.

B. J. MCCALL AND M. ADAMKOVICS, Departments of Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801; B. L. RACHFORD, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College; T. P. SNOW, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder; S. D. FRIEDMAN, Space Telescope Science Institute; P. SONNENTRUCKER, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University; T. FISHMAN, J. A. THORBURN, L. M. HOBBS, T. OKA, D. E. WELTY AND D. G. YORK, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago.

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RF04 10min2:39
OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS NEAR 680 nm.

H. TADA, K. KAWAGUCHI, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; H. IZUMIURA, Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Asaguchi, 719-0232, Japan; T.. SEDIVCOVA AND S. CIVIS, J.Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chmistry, 18223 Prague, Czech Republic.

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RF05 15min2:51
LABORATORY ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF CARBON MOLECULES FOR COMPARISON WITH DIB DATA.

JOHN P. MAIER, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.

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INTERMISSION

RF06 15min3:30
THE CHEMISTRY OF CANDIDATE MOLECULAR ION CARRIERS OF THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS.

THEODORE P. SNOW, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, 389 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309; NICHOLAS B. BETTS, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309; MEREDITH M. DROSBACK, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, 389 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309; AND VERONICA M. BIERBAUM, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309.

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RF07 15min3:47
RECONSIDERING RADICAL-RADICAL REACTIONS ON GRAIN SURFACES: A NEW INTERSTELLAR CHEMICAL MODEL.

SUSANNA L. WIDICUS WEAVER, Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, Division of Geology and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.

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RF08 15min4:04
MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF H2 FORMATION ON GRAINS OF VARYING SURFACE ROUGHNESS.

HERMA CUPPEN, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; AND ERIC HERBST, Departments of Physics, Astronomy, and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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RF09 15min4:21
SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF \lq\lq INTERSTELLAR MOLECULAR-IONS":CH3CNH+, HN2+, AND DN2+.

J. TAKANO, K. HASHIMOTO, T. HIRAO AND T. AMANO, Institute for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan 310-8512.

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RF10 15min4:38
SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE BRANCHING RATIO OF DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION REACTION OF DCND+ WITH ELECTRONS.

T. AMANO AND R. TOYODA, Institute for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan 310-8512.

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RF11 15min4:55
FIR SPECTROSCOPY OF BARE CH5+ USING LASER INDUCED REACTIONS.

OSKAR ASVANY, EDOUARD HUGO, Leiden Observatory, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; STEPHAN SCHLEMMER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.

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RF12 15min5:12
OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS FOR RYDBERG TRANSITIONS IN CO BETWEEN 925 AND 956 Å .

S. R. FEDERMAN, Y. SHEFFER, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606; M. EIDELSBERG, J. L. LEMAIRE, J. H. FILLION, F. ROSTAS, Observatoire de Paris Meudon and Université de Cergy-Pontoise; J. RUIZ, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

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RF13 15min5:29
INTERSTELLAR N2 IN THE DIFFUSE ISM TOWARD 20 AQUILAE.

DAVID C. KNAUTH, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; B-G ANDERSSON, S. R. MCCANDLISS, H. W. MOOS, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.

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