WI. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 MCPHERSON LAB


Chair: SUSANNA WIDICUS WEAVER, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia


WI01 10min1:30
COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS: THE LITHIUM PROBLEM.

DOUGLAS N. FRIEDEL, ATHOL KEMBALL AND BRIAN FIELDS, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801.

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WI02 15min1:42
DISCOVERY OF MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER WITH WARM CO2 GAS ABSORPTION.

DEOKKEUN AN, SOLANGE RAMIREZ, IPAC/CALTECH; KRIS SELLGREN, OHIO STATE U.; ADWIN BOOGERT, CALTECH; RICHARD ARENDT, NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; ANGELA COTERA, SETI INSTITUTE; THOMAS ROBITAILLE, ST. ANDREWS U., UK; MATHIAS SCHULTHEIS, OBS. BESANCON, FRANCE; HOWARD A. SMITH, HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS; SUSAN STOLOVY, SPITZER SCIENCE CENTER, CALTECH.

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WI03 15min1:59
MILLIMETER DETECTION OF AlO (X2 Sigma +): METAL OXIDE CHEMISTRY IN THE ENVELOPE OF VY CANIS MAJORIS.

E. D. TENENBAUM, L. M. ZIURYS, University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, Department of Chemistry, Arizona Radio Observatory Tucson, AZ 85721.

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WI04 15min2:16
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS OF INTERSTELLAR CN AND CH+ IN DIFFUSE MOLECULAR CLOUDS: THE 12C/13C RATIO AND THE EXCITATION OF 13CN.

ADAM M. RITCHEY, STEVEN R. FEDERMAN, YARON SHEFFER, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606; AND DAVID L. LAMBERT, W. J. McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.

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WI05 15min2:33
A SEARCH FOR INTERSTELLAR UREA WITH CARMA.

H.-L. KUO, L. E. SNYDER, D. N. FRIEDEL, L. W. LOONEY, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B. J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801; A. J. REMIJAN, NRAO, Charlottesville VA 22903; F. J. LOVAS, Optical Technology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg MD 20899-8441; J. M. HOLLIS, NASA/GSFC, Code 606, Greenbelt MD 20771.

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WI06 15min2:50
BROADBAND AND CAVITY SPECTROSCOPY OF THIOFULMINIC ACID HCNS AND THIOISOFULMINIC ACID HSNC, AND A SYSTEMATIC ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH FOR THE FOUR [H,C,N,S] ISOMERS IN SGR B2 WITH THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE.

M. C. MCCARTHY, C. A. GOTTLIEB, P. THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, and School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138; M. T. MUCKLE, J. L. NEILL, B. H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319; SVEN THORWIRTH, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany; S. BRÜNKEN, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; ARNAUD BELLOCHE, LIES VERHEYEN, KARL M. MENTEN, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany; AND ANTHONY J. REMIJAN, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

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WI07 15min3:07
GAS-GRAIN MODELING OF HNCO, HOCN, HCNO, AND HONC.

DONGHUI QUAN, Chemical Physics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; ERIC HERBST, Departments of Physics, Astronomy, & Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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INTERMISSION


WI08 10min3:40
THERMALIZATION OF INTERSTELLAR CO.

TAKESHI OKA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Chemistry, The Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; HAN XIAO AND PHILLIP LYNCH, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.

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WI09 15min3:52
VARIABILITY OF THE COSMIC-RAY IONIZATION RATE IN DIFFUSE MOLECULAR CLOUDS.

NICK INDRIOLO, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; THOMAS R. GEBALLE, Gemini Observatory, Hilo, HI 96720; TAKESHI OKA, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Astronomy and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WI10 15min4:09
CAN WE USE METASTABLE HELIUM TO TRACE THE COSMIC-RAY IONIZATION RATE?.

NICK INDRIOLO, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; LEWIS M. HOBBS, University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI 53191; KENNETH H. HINKLE, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85726; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Astronomy and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WI11 15min4:26
SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF THE H3+ + H2 REACTION AT ASTROPHYSICALLY RELEVANT TEMPERATURES.

BRIAN A. TOM, BRETT A. MCGUIRE, LAUREN E. MOORE, THOMAS J. WOOD, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WI12 15min4:43
PRODUCT BRANCHING RATIOS OF THE REACTION OF CO WITH H3+ AND ITS ISOTOPOMERS .

HUA-GEN YU, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973.

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WI13 15min5:00
A NEW INTERSTELLAR MODEL FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE TIME-DEPENDENT KINETICS.

NANASE HARADA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210; ERIC HERBST, Departments of Physics, Astronomy, and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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WI14 15min5:17
THE OPTICAL SPECTRUM OF THIOZONE S3 AND OTHER SULFUR RICH SYSTEMS.

DAMIAN L. KOKKIN, MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY AND PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, and School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

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WI15 10min5:34
LABORATORY MEASUREMENT OF THE CO CAMERON BANDS AND VISIBLE EMISSIONS FOLLOWING VUV PHOTODISSOCIATION OF CO2.

K. S. KALOGERAKIS, C. ROMANESCU, T. G. SLANGER, SRI International, Mol. Phys. Lab., Menlo Park, CA 94025; L. C. LEE, San Diego State Univ., Dept. Elect. & Comp. Eng., San Diego, CA 92182; M. AHMED AND K. R. WILSON, Univ. Calif. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., Div. Chem. Sci., Berkeley, CA 94720.

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WI16 Post-deadline Abstract -- Original Abstract Withdrawn 15min5:46
AN EXHAUSTIVE ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE ABUNDANT ASTRONOMICAL MOLECULE CYCLOPROPENYLIDENE, c-C3H2.

SILVIA SPEZZANO, C. A. GOTTLIEB, M. C. MCCARTHY AND P. THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, and School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

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