WI. ASTRONOMICAL SPECIES AND PROCESSES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2007 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: BENJAMIN J. McCALL, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

WI01 15min1:30

A NEW MODEL FOR COMPLEX CHEMISTRY IN HOT CORES.

SUSANNA L. WIDICUS WEAVER, Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; ROBIN GARROD, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany; ERIC HERBST, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Departments of Astronomy and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

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WI02			15min1:47

PHOSPHORUS CHEMISTRY IN CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVELOPES: PN IN IRC+10216, VY CMA, AND CRL2688.

ALDO J. APPONI, STEFANIE N. MILAM, DEWAYNE T. HALFEN, LUCY M. ZIURYS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, STEWARD OBSERVATORY, ARIZONA RADIO OBSERVATORY, 933 N CHERRY AVENUE, TUCSON, AZ 85721.

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WI03			15min2:04

A CHEMICAL AND DYNAMICAL MODEL FOR THE OXYGEN-RICH SUPERGIANT VY CMA.

LUCY M. ZIURYS, STEFANIE N. MILAM, NEVILLE J. WOOLF, ALDO J. APPONI AND EMILY D. TENENBAUM, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, STEWARD OBSERVATORY, ARIZONA RADIO OBSERVATORY, 933 N CHERRY AVENUE, TUCSON, AZ 85721.

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WI04			15min2:21

MILLIMETER-WAVE INVESTIGATION OF EVOLVED PLANETARY NEBULAE CHEMISTRY.

EMILY D. TENENBAUM, STEFANIE N. MILAM, NEVILLE J. WOOLF AND LUCY M. ZIURYS, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721.

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WI05			15min2:38

MODELING SOME NEWLY DETECTED MOLECULES.

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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WI06			15min2:55

PHOTOCHEMICAL AND DISHARGE-DRIVEN PATHWAYS TO AROMATICS FROM 1,3-BUTADIENE: EXPLORING AROMATIC PRODUCTION IN TITAN'S ATMOSPHERE.

JOSH J. NEWBY, JAIME A. STEARNS, CHING-PING LIU AND TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2804.

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INTERMISSION

WI07			15min3:30

LABORATORY AND ASTRONOMICAL DETECTION OF THE LARGE MOLECULAR ANION C₆H^-.

MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY, HARSHAL GUPTA, CARL A. GOTTLIEB AND PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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WI08			15min3:47

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS OF ASTRONOMICALLY INTERESTING ANIONS.

HARSHAL GUPTA, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, and Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; JOHN F. STANTON, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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WI09			15min4:04

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF THE CARBON CHAIN ANIONS C_2nH^- (n=1,2,4).

SANDRA BRÜNKEN, CARL A. GOTTLIEB, HARSHAL GUPTA, MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY AND PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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WI10			15min4:21

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF CN^-.

C. A. GOTTLIEB, S. BRÜNKEN, 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.

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WI11			15min4:38

INTERSTELLAR CHEMICAL MODELS WITH MOLECULAR ANIONS.

ERIC HERBST, Departments of Physics, Astronomy & Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; TOM MILLAR, MARTIN CORDINER, CATHERINE WALSH, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; ROISIN NI CHUIMIN, Astrophysics Group, The University of Manchester, Manchester M60 1QD, UK.

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WI12			15min4:55

OBSERVATIONS OF THE C₆H^- ANION IN IRC+10216.

Y. KASAI, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan; E. KAGI, Faculty of Information Science, Hiroshima City University, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan; K. KAWAGUCHI, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.

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WI13	Post-deadline Abstract - Original Abstract Withdrawn		15min5:12

HIGH RESOLUTION CARMA OBSERVATIONS OF ACETONE [(CH₃)₂CO] IN THE ORION-KL REGION.

D. N. FRIEDEL, L. E. SNYDER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; A. J. REMIJAN, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA.

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