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(4. December 2018)
(Picture: adopted from KavliPrize.org ) Ewine van Dishoeck wins prestigious Kavli Prize 2018 for Astrophysics, 'For her combined contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry, elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets.' from (4. Dec 2018) See Kavli Prize Web page, read more...
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(23. October 2017)
(Picture: PRL)
"An alternative view on the spectral band patterns of the unidentified infrared emission" from (23. October 2017) PhysRevLett article, read more... -
(6. November 2014)
(Picture: ESO) "ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis" from
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(19. February 2014)
ETFLA, the European Task Force for Laboratory Astrophysics has launched its new web page. External link: ETFLA -
(26. January 2014)
AstroPAH is a newsletter focused on research about astronomical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). External link: AstroPAH - "Laboratory-based experiments are sorely needed to complement the rapidly proliferating spectral data originating from observations by the latest space telescopes." from Nailing fingerprints in the stars, (editorial) Nature 503, 437 (2013); Doi:10.1038/503437a (28. November 2013), read more...
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(Picture: A. M. Quetz, MPIA) E. A. Bergin et al.: An old disk still capable of forming a planetary system, Nature 493, 644 (2013); DOI: 10.1038/nature11805 (31. January 2013), DOI: 10.1038/nature11805
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(Picture: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team) Jes K. Jørgensen et al., Detection of the simplest sugar, glycolaldehyde, in a solar-type protostar with ALMA, Astrophys. J. (29 August 2012), arXiv:1208.5498v1 [astro-ph.SR]
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(05.02.2012) Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD): New division at AAS after more than 30 years. LAD is the successor to the AAS Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics, established in 2007. Read Announcement -
(Picture: 2Mass / G. Kopan, R. Hurt) T. R. Geballe et al.: Infrared diffuse interstellar bands in the Galactic Centre region , Nature Letters,Doi: 10.1038/nature10527 (10 November 2011), [article]
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(July 7, 2011)
(Picture: Esa / Nasa-JPL / Caltech / UCL / STScI) ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered that titanic stellar explosions can be excellent dust factories. In space, the dust mixes with gas to become the raw material for new stars, planets and, ultimately, life. This discovery may solve a mystery of the early Universe. M. Matsuura et al.: Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A, Science Express, 7.7.2011, Doi:10.1126/science.1205983 (October 12, 2010) [article]
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(March 11, 2011)
The Scientific Organizing Committee of the 2010 NASA Laboratory
Astrophysics Workshop has released the White Paper that it was charged to produce by NASA. It is available from arXiv [here].
As set out in the Workshop Charter, the purpose of the meeting was "to
provide a forum within which the scientific community can review the
current state of knowledge in the field of Laboratory Astrophysics,
assess the critical data needs of NASA's current and future Space
Astrophysics missions, and identify the challenges and opportunities
facing the field as we begin a new decade," and the White Paper presents
the Scientific Organizing Committee's synthesis and summary of those
activities along with certain key findings.
Daniel Wolf Savin - On behalf of the Science Organizing Committee -
(October 12, 2010) Theodorus P. M. Goumans and Johannes Kästner, "Hydrogen-Atom Tunneling Could Contribute to H2 Formation in Space", Angewandte Chemie (Int. Ed.), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201001311 [article]
Tunneling effects in the reaction between hydrogen atoms and benzene have been studied with a new direct dynamics implementation of harmonic quantum transition-state theory. In certain regions of interstellar space, tunneling could facilitate H chemisorption on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, thereby catalyzing HD and H2 formation.
- (August 27, 2010, Laurence S. Rothman and Iouli E. Gordon)
A new edition of the HITEMP database has now been placed on the
anonymous ftp site at our lab. This new edition is described in the
article "HITEMP, the high-temperature molecular spectroscopic
database," L.S. Rothman, I.E. Gordon, R.J. Barber, H. Dothe,
R.R. Gamache, A. Goldman, V. Perevalov, S.A. Tashkun, and J. Tennyson,
J. Quant. Spectrosc. and Rad. Transfer 111, 2139-2150 (2010). The new
HITEMP replaces the earlier edition ("HITRAN, HAWKS and HITEMP
High-Temperature Molecular Database," L.S. Rothman, R.B. Wattson,
R.R. Gamache, J. Schroeder, and A. McCann, Proc. Soc. Photo Optical
Instrumentation Engineers 2471, 105-111 (1995)). To access the HITEMP data:
ftp to cfa-ftp.harvard.edu
user = anonymous
password = e-mail address
cd /pub/HITEMP-2010 
(August 4, 2010, by The Ames PAH Database Team)
We are happy to announce the release of the NASA Ames PAH IR
Spectroscopic Database and the launch of the accompanying website at
http://www.astrochem.org/pahdb. The paper that describes the database
and site has been published in the August issue of the Astrophysical
Journal Supplement Series (http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/189/2/341/).
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(July 22, 2010, ScienceExpress)
Jan Cami, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Els Peeters, Sarah Elizabeth Malek,
"Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary Nebula",
Abstract: In the last decades, a number of molecules and diverse dust features have been identified by astronomical observations in various environments. Most of the dust that determines the physical and chemical characteristics of the interstellar medium (ISM) is formed in the outflows of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and is further processed when these objects become planetary nebulae (PNe). Here, we report on the environment of Tc 1, a peculiar PN whose infrared spectrum shows emission from cold and neutral C60 and C70. The two molecules amount to a few percent of the available cosmic carbon in this region, showing that if the conditions are right, fullerenes can and do form efficiently in space.
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(July 11, 2010, by Xander Tielens)
The refereeing process for the HIFI First Result special issue of A & A will conclude on July 31, 2010. As of this writing, a large number of papers have already been accepted and are available through Astroph. Together, these papers give a good impression of the versatility of HIFI and the expected breadth of HIFI's impact on astrophysics and astrochemistry. We want to alert you to the website, http://hifi.strw.leidenuniv.nl/, where we collect these papers and provide relevant links to the teams webpages. As a service to the community, we will add HIFI papers, as they are accepted for publication, to this page throughout the mission. So, you might want to bookmark this page as an easy entry point for HIFI results.
In addition, we hope that these papers may inspire you to submit a proposal in response to the Herschel Open Time Announcement of Opportunity using HIFI (http://herschel.esac.esa.int/AO_Introduction.shtml), which are due on July 22nd, 2010.
- (May 2008) EuroNews video "Water and the Universe" Link...
- (May 2007) Established at the 210th Meeting, May 2007 in Honolulu the AAS has a new Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics and Astrochemistry. Link...
- (July 23, 2007) Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Negatively-Charged Molecule Discovery read more...
- (May 23, 2007) "First Light" for the Astrochemistry.eu Web-page.
