TI. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2007 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: LEWIS E. SNYDER, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

TI01 15min1:30

AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE PREDICTION OF COMPLETE MILLIMETER AND SUBMILLIMETER SPECTRA AT ASTROPHYSICAL TEMPERATURES..

IVAN R. MEDVEDEV AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

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TI02			15min1:47

THE v_t=1 STATE OF METHANOL.

JOHN C. PEARSON, CAROLYN BRAUER, BRIAN J. DROUIN AND HERBERT PICKETT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109; JONATHAN FISHER, HONGYU SHI AND LI-HONG XU, Centre for Laser, Atomic and Molecular Sciences (CLAMS), Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5.

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TI03			15min2:04

THE v_t=2 STATE OF METHANOL.

CAROLYN BRAUER, JOHN C. PEARSON, BRIAN J. DROUIN AND HERBERT PICKETT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109; LI-HONG XU, JONATHAN FISHER, HONGYU SHI, Centre for Laser, Atomic and Molecular Sciences (CLAMS), Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5.

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TI04			15min2:21

TORSION-ROTATIONAL TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY ON DIMETHYL ETHER .

C. P. ENDRES, H. S. P. MÜLLER, F. LEWEN, T. F. GIESEN, S. SCHLEMMER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany; B. J. DROUIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA; V. LATTANZI, Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements, 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France; P. GRONER, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.

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TI05			15min2:38

MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF t-ETHYL METHYL ETHER IN THE TORSIONALLY EXCITED STATE.

KAORI KOBAYASHI, TAKANORI MATSUI, SHOZO TSUNEKAWA, Department of Physics, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555 Japan; AND NOBUKIMI OHASHI, University of Kanazawa, Japan.

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INTERMISSION

TI06			15min3:10

MICROWAVE STUDIES OF GLYCEROL.

F. J. LOVAS, D. F. PLUSQUELLIC, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441; V. V. ILYUSHIN AND R. A. MOTIYENKO, Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU, Chervonopraporna 4, 61002 Kharkov, Ukraine.

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TI07			15min3:27

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF C₂H₅CN.

CAROLYN BRAUER, JOHN C. PEARSON, BRIAN J. DROUIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; YOSHIMITSU FUKUYAMA, HITISHI ODASHIMA, SHOZO TSUNEKAWA, KAORI KOBAYASHI, Department of Physics, Toyama University, Gofuku 3190, Toyama 930-8555, Japan; K. V. L. N. SASTRY, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada.

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TI08			15min3:44

SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF THIOFORMALDEHYDE, H₂CS, IN ITS GROUND STATE.

ATSUKO MAEDA, IVAN MEDVEDEV, ERIC HERBST, MANFRED WINNEWISSER, FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; HOLGER S. P. MÜLLER, CHRISTIAN P. ENDRES AND STEPHAN SCHLEMMER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany.

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TI09			15min4:01

PREPARATION FOR THE ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH FOR PROTONATED METHANOL.

H.-L. KUO, D. N. FRIEDEL, L. W. LOONEY, L. E. SNYDER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; S. L. WIDICUS WEAVER, B. J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801.

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TI10			15min4:18

THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF THE ROTATIONAL CONSTANTS FOR PROTONATED METHANOL (CH₃OH₂⁺): A MISSING PLAYER IN HOT CORE CHEMISTRY.

D. E. WOON, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801.

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TI11			15min4:35

THE RADIO SPECTRA OF 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-TRICYANOBENZENE.

JENS-UWE GRABOW, MICHAEL ROSEMEYER, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Callinstraße 3A, 30167 Hannover, Germany; ALBERTO LESARRI, Universidad de Valladolid, Departamento Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Prado de la Magdalena, s/n, 47005 Valladolid, Spain; HENNING HOPF, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Organische Chemie, Hagenring 30, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany; ROBERT J. MCMAHON, University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

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