WG. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 - 1:30pm

Room: 170 MATH ANNEX

Chair: ERIC HERBST, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

WG01 15min1:30

OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS AND PREDISSOCIATION RATES FOR RYDBERG TRANSITIONS IN CO BETWEEN 930 AND 935 Å .

S. R. FEDERMAN, Y. SHEFFER, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606; M. EIDELSBERG, J. L. LEMAIRE, F. ROSTAS, Observatoire de Paris Meudon and Université de Cergy-Pontoise; J. H. FILLION, Université UMPC, Paris VI.

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WG02			15min1:47

EXOTIC METAL MOLECULES IN OXYGEN-RICH ENVELOPES: DETECTION OF AlOH (X¹ Sigma

⁺) IN VY CANIS MAJORIS.

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

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WG03			15min2:04

CONFIRMATION OF KCN IN THE CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVELOPE OF IRC+10216.

R. L. PULLIAM, L. M. ZIURYS, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Astronomy, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; C. SAVAGE, Applied Electromagnetics (IAT-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

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WG04			10min2:21

CS AND HCO⁺ IN PLANETARY NEBULAE.

JESSICA L. DODD, L. M. ZIURYS, N. J. WOOLF, Department of Chemistry, Steward Observatory, Arizona Radio Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

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WG05			15min2:33

COMPARING THE ORTHO-TO-PARA RATIOS OF H₂ AND H₃⁺ IN DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS.

NICK INDRIOLO, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; TAKESHI OKA, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; THOMAS R. GEBALLE, Gemini Observatory, Hilo, HI 96720; KENNETH H. HINKLE, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85726; GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WG06			15min2:50

THE NEARLY PERFECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS lambda

6196.0 AND 6613.6.

BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; MEREDITH M. DROSBACK, Univeristy of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904; JULIE A. THORBURN, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI 53140; DONALD G. YORK, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; SCOTT D. FRIEDMAN, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218; LEWIS M. HOBBS, University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI 53191; BRIAN L. RACHFORD, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301; THEODORE P. SNOW, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; PAULE SONNENTRUCKER, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; DANIEL E. WELTY, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WG07			5min3:07

A NEW ATLAS OF THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS: HD 183143.

LEWIS M. HOBBS, University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI 53191; DONALD G. YORK, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; JULIE A. THORBURN, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI 53140; THEODORE P. SNOW, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; MICHAEL BISHOF, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; SCOTT D. FRIEDMAN, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; TAKESHI OKA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; BRIAN L. RACHFORD, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301; PAULE SONNENTRUCKER, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; DANIEL E. WELTY, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

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WG08			15min3:14

NH AND CH IN THE ACE SATELLITE SOLAR SPECTRUM.

P. F. BERNATH, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK; R. S. RAM, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; R. COLIN, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 50, av. F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

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WG09			15min3:31

THE GAS-PHASE SPECTRA OF RESONANCE-STABILIZED RADICALS AND THE RED RECTANGLE EMISSION.

NAHID CHALYAVI, TYLER P. TROY, MASAKAZU NAKAJIMA, KLAAS NAUTA, SCOTT H. KABLE AND TIMOTHY W. SCHMIDT, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

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WG10			15min3:48

MOLECULAR HYDROGEN FORMATION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE: NEW IMPLICATIONS FROM LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS.

HOLGER KRECKEL, HJALMAR BRUHNS, KENNETH A. MILLER, DANIEL W. SAVIN, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; MARTIN CIZEK, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic; SIMON C. O. GLOVER, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; XAVIER URBAIN, Department of Physics/PAMO, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium.

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