Astrochemistry

Kickoff meeting and proposal

• NWO astrochemistry site
  • NWO astrochemistry Events
• Toward a Dutch Astrochemistry Network
• Research Training Network, Molecular Universe
• The H+CO(v,H) collision rate project
• Google NWOastrochemistry site (restricted access)
• Planetary and Exoplanetary Science (PEPSci) - NWO

AstroPAH Newsletter

Plans

• Summary of sub-themes astrochemistry kick-off meeting
• Gas-phase

Journals

• SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A)
• The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
• The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS)
• The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJLett)
• Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Astrochemistry: Recent Successes and Current challenges, Symposium 231, 2005

Popular

• www.astronomie.nl
• http://www.astrobio.net/
• www.allesoversterrenkunde.nl
• Universe today
• Planet science

Databases

• gas phase reaction rates, KIDA, Bordeaux
• www.labastro.eu
• SPLAT
• Laboratory astrophysics, Harold Linnartz
• ExoMol
• N2 Photoabsorption cross sections in the vacuum ultraviolet
• LAMBDA: Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (ref.)
• Photodissociation and photoionization
• HITEMP (contains HITRAN)
• HITRAN (ref.)
• GEISA database (spectroscopic)
• IUPAC Chemical Kinetic Data
• JPL: Molecular spectroscopy Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ref.)
• CDMS: The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy (ref.)
  • Molecules in space
• Basecol: Ro-vibrational collisional excitation database and utilities
• Basemole
• MCRATES: Molecular Collision Rates (Sheldon Green)
• CCP7
• CfA:Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Databases
• External: Hotlinks to databases
• The MPI-Mainz UV/VIS Spectral Atlas of Gaseous Molecules of Atmospheric Interest

Telescopes

• ALMA: Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array(2.8-24 cm^-1) [www.eso.org/projects/alma
• Hershel(15-181 cm^-1)
  • Hershel home page
  • HIFI: Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (21-64 cm^-1)
    • Herschel-HIFI first results
    • fixing the problem
    • WISH: Water in star-forming regions with Herschel
    • HIFI Science (SRON)
  • PACS: Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (47-167 cm^-1)
• Spitzer (spectroscopy 260-1920 cm^-1
• JWST: the James Webb Space Telescope(Launch 2014, instruments)
• SPICA
  • SRON - SAFARI (47-33 cm^-1) (SAFARI wiki)
  • MIR (263-2857 cm^-1)

Water

• Dishoeck et al, Chem. Rev. 2013
• www.exomol.com/molecules/H2O.html

Lectures

• Prof. Dr. Marcella Carolla

Publications

• Astro in our database
• www.astrochymist.org publication list

People

• Ewine van Dishoeck
  • Astrochemistry lecture
• Xander Tielens
• Stefanie Mühle (JIVE)
• John P. Maier
• Daniel Wolf Savin
• François Lique
• Floris van der Tak

Meetings, conferences

• Photodissociation workshop, Leiden (Feb 3-5, 2015)
• Astrochemistry meeting Eindhoven (Jan 5-7, 2011) (online talks
• 2010 NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop
  • Proceedings
• Astrochemistry at High Resolution

Systems

• H₂ + H₂O

Abbreviations

• CRIRES - Cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectrograph
• ESO - European Southern Observatory
• ISM - Interstellar medium
• mas - milli-arc-second (4.848e-09 rad)
• (non)-LTE - (non) Local Thermal Equilibrium
• MACAO - Multi-Application Curvature Adaptive Optics
• PAH - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• pc - parsec = parallax of one arcsecond = 3.26 light years
• SED - Spectral energy distributions (see Spitzer handbook
• VISIR - VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-Infrared
• VLT - Very Large Telescope
• VLTI - Very Large Telescope Interferometry

Infrard astronomy

Lecture notes

• Stellar atmospheres (J. B. Tatum)

Links

• European task force laboratory astrophycis
• www.astronet-eu.org
• Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics
• NOVA - Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie
• Astronomy Nijmegen
• Sterrenwacht Leiden
• Astrophysics & Astrochemistry Lab at NASA Ames
• Reaction dynamics (Hawaii) (many links here)
• Wikipedia
  • Astrochemistry
  • Astrophysical maser