RE. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2003 - 1:30PM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: JOHN PEARSON, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

RE01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

LABORATORY SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERSTELLAR RELEVANT MOLECULES.

THOMAS F. GIESEN, FRANK LEWEN AND GISBERT WINNEWISSER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany .

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RE02			15min2:05

THE COLOGNE DATABASE FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, CDMS.

HOLGER S. P. MÜLLER, SVEN THORWIRTH AND GISBERT WINNEWISSER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany.

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RE03			15min2:22

THE MILLIMETER- AND SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTRUM OF DIETHYL ETHER (C₂H₅OC₂H₅).

I. MEDVEDEV, M. WINNEWISSER, F. C. DE LUCIA, E. HERBST, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; YE ENYI, R. P. A. BETTENS, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543.

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RE04			15min2:39

MONOBRIDGED Si₂H₄.

M. C. MCCARTHY AND P. THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; LEVENT SARI AND HENRY F. SCHAEFER III, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2525; ZHENHONG YU, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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RE05			15min2:56

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM AND STRUCTURE OF Si₃.

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RE06			15min3:13

3C SUGARS IN INTERSTELLAR HOT CORES? STUDIES OF THE LABORATORY ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF DIHYDROXYACETONE..

SUSANNA L. WIDICUS, ROGIER BRAAKMAN, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institue of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, Division of Geological and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125..

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INTERMISSION

RE07			15min3:45

PRECISE LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF LINE FREQUENCIES USEFUL TO STUDIES OF STAR AND PLANET FORMATION.

CARL A. GOTTLIEB, PHILIP C. MYERS AND PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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RE08			15min4:02

ABSORPTION OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS FOR RYDBERG BANDS IN CO BETWEEN 956 AND 1076 Å.

M. EIDELSBERG, J. L. LEMAIRE, J. H. FILLION, F. ROSTAS, Observatoire de Paris Meudon and Université de Cergy-Pontoise; S. R. FEDERMAN AND Y. SHEFFER, University of Toledo.

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RE09			15min4:19

FULL-DIMENSIONALITY QUANTUM CALCULATIONS OF ACETYLENE/VINYLIDENE ISOMERIZATION.

ALEX BROWN, J. M. BOWMAN, S. ZOU, Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

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RE10			15min4:36

ACCURATE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES AND SPECTROSCOPIC CONSTANTS FOR CCH^-, NH₂^- AND THEIR ISOTOPOMERS.

TIMOTHY J. LEE, CHRISTOPHER E. DATEO AND GALINA CHABAN, MST27B-1, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000.

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RE11	Post-deadline Abstract		15min4:53

THE RADIO SPECTRUM OF THE PHENYL RADICAL.

R. J. MCMAHON, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 54601; M. C. MCCARTHY, J. DUDEK, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; J. F. STANTON, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; C. A. GOTTLIEB AND P. THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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RE12	Post-deadline Abstract		15min5:10

LASER SPRECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF Si₃C AND Si₃.

J. DUDEK, M. C. MCCARTHY AND P. THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Division of Engineering Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; J. F. STANTON, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712.

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