FC. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006 - 8:30am

Room: 1000 McPHERSON LAB

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

FC01 15min8:30

NEW INTERSTELLAR MOLECULES DETECTED WITH THE NRAO 100-m GREEN BANK TELESCOPE.

ANTHONY J. REMIJAN, NRAO, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901; J. M. HOLLIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office, Code 606, Greenbelt, MD 20771; F. J. LOVAS, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; P. R. JEWELL, NRAO, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901; L. E. SNYDER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801.

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FC02			15min8:47

ANALYSIS OF THE 3MM SPECTRUM OF ORION-KL FROM THE BIMA ARRAY.

D. N. FRIEDEL, L. E. SNYDER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801; ANTHONY J. REMIJAN AND B. E. TURNER, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22901.

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FC03			15min9:04

GRAIN SURFACE FORMATION OF METHYL FORMATE IN THE WARM-UP PHASE OF HOT MOLECULAR CORES.

R. T. GARROD AND E. HERBST, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210.

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FC04			15min9:21

THE GROUND STATE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF METHANOL.

ROGIER BRAAKMAN, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125; JOHN C. PEARSON, BRIAN J. DROUIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109; AND GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.

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FC05			15min9:38

THE v_t=3 STATE OF METHANOL.

JOHN C. PEARSON, BRIAN J. DROUIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109; ROGIER BRAAKMAN, GEOFFREY A. BLAKE, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125.

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FC06			15min9:55

SENSITIVITY OF INTERSTELLAR CHEMISTRY TO THE RATIO OF THE COSMIC-RAY IONIZATION OF HE AND H₂.

VALENTINE WAKELAM, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; ERIC HERBST, Departments of Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; FRANCK SELSIS AND GERARD MASSACRIER, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 Allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon cedex 7, France .

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FC07			5min10:12

ASTROCHEMISTRY WITH THE UMIST DATABASE 2005.

J. WOODALL, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building, Manchester M60 1QD, UK; M. AGÚNDEZ, Dpto. Astrofisica Molecular e Infrarroja, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), C Serrano 121 28806, Madrid, Spain; A. J. MARKWICK-KEMPER, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; T. J. MILLAR, Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK.

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INTERMISSION

FC08			15min10:40

METAL ION CHEMISTRY IN COLD INTERSTELLAR AND CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVIRONMENTS.

ROBERT C. DUNBAR, Chemistry Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106; AND SIMON PETRIE, Chemistry Department, the Faculties, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

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FC09			15min10:57

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE BARNARD 68 PRE-STELLAR CORE.

SÉBASTIEN MARET AND EDWIN A. BERGIN, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042.

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FC10			15min11:14

MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF INTERSTELLAR ICE.

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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FC11			15min11:31

C₃O IN THE CARBON STAR IRC+10216.

EMILY D. TENENBAUM, ALDO J. APPONI AND LUCY M. ZIURYS, Department of Chemistry, Department of Astronomy, and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721.

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FC12			15min11:48

VELOCITY STRUCTURE IN THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BANDS.

MEREDITH M. DROSBACK, THEODORE P. SNOW, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado; JULIE A. THORBURN, LEW M. HOBBS, DANIEL E. WELTY, DONALD G. YORK, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago; BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry and 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, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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FC13			15min12:05

THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF AIB.

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

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