Astrochem Coffee

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2026.

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Interview with Tony Remijan, Green Bank Observatory Director.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

0:47 - Grab & Go Papers

15:39 - Advert: Trick or Treat System

17:05 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Tony Remijan

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2026.

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Samantha Scibelli co-hosts and interviews Hanga Andras-Letanovszky. Coffee chat with Alex Byrne about Science Policy.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Coffee Chat: Alex Byrne

22:29 - Advert: End-of-Summer Drinks at Starducks

23:40 - Grab & Go Papers

39:49 - Advert: LeafDelay 5000

41:19 - Single-Origin Brew: Samantha + Hanga

1:09:37 - Percolator: IRAS Teaser

1:11:36 - Chalkboard

Hanga's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00308

Dublin PhD Position: https://marievds.github.io/jobs.html

New Zealand Postdoc: https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2601192

AAS Workshop: https://labastro-workshop.github.io/

ACS Astrocheminar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3onTUSOZThG2rGuqSTV6wA

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Chalkboard this month has save-the-dates for conferences and some online webinar and newsletter info!

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of July 2026.

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Ilsa Cooke co-hosts and interviews Izaskun Jimenez-Serra.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:58 - Grab & Go Papers

17:52 - Advert: SummerSaver 9000

19:25 - Single-Origin Brew: Ilsa + Izaskun

32:01 - Percolator: Interstellar Ion-Molecule Chemistry to COVID Detection

45:14 - Chalkboard

Izaskun's Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02905-7

H&C Coffee Sign: https://maps.app.goo.gl/npeVw2ptpy3sjvsz5

Ennis Postdoc Position: https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2601192

ALMA 15-Year Conference: https://2027alma.org/

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Chalkboard this month has save-the-dates for conferences and some online webinar and newsletter info!

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2026.

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Special guests Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Lukasz Tychoniec. The Percolator is on holiday!

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:15 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Franciele

12:43 - Advert: July Drinks at Starducks

14:01 - Grab & Go Papers

28:40 - Advert: S’moreMaster Pro

30:27 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Lukas

48:24 - Chalkboard

Lukas's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/11/aa40692-21/aa40692-21.html

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Chalkboard this month has save-the-dates for conferences and some online webinar and newsletter info!

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2026.

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Special guests Zak Smith and Alfred Hopkinson. The Percolator is on holiday!

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:13 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Zak

11:03 - Advert: June Drinks at Starducks

12:05 - Grab & Go Papers

26:48 - Advert: ShadeMatic

28:34 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Alfred

36:47 - Chalkboard

Alfred's Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02765-7

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2026.

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Alex Byrne co-hosts. Special guests Jenny Bergner, Tobias Dijkhuis, and Stefanie Milam.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:41 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Jenny

8:31 - Advert: May Drinks at Starducks

9:19 - Grab & Go Papers

26:09 - Advert: GrillGuard 360

27:16 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex + Tobias

47:27 - Percolator: Brett + Stefanie

57:44 - Chalkboard

Jenny's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5961

Tobias's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01042

Stefanie's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/497123

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2026.

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Special guests Sergio Ioppolo and Ryan Fortenberry.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Sergio

10:16 - Advert: April Drinks at Starducks

11:17 - Grab & Go Papers

26:16 - Advert: BunnyBouncer 3000

27:20 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Ryan

1:02:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2026.

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Special guests Ken Kellerman and Miguel Sanz-Novo with co-host Alana Nisperos.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken

6:38 - Advert: March Drinks at Starducks

7:43 - Grab & Go Papers

24:08 - Advert: ForecastFooler

25:11 - Single-Origin Brew: Alana + Miguel

40:45 - Barista Bootcamp: Optical Depth

53:11 - Chalkboard

Miguel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07365

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of January 2026.

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Special guests Ken Kellerman and Rebecca Charbonneau.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

0:59 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken

7:45 - Advert: February Drinks at Starducks

8:45 - Grab & Go Papers

23:11 - Advert: HeartHelper

24:04 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Rebecca

53:41 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2025.

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Special guests Brenne Gregory and Suchitra Narayanan.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:32 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Brenne

7:42 - Advert: January Drinks at Starducks

8:44 - Grab & Go Papers

20:44 - Advert: ResolutionKeeper

21:44 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Suchitra

29:48 - Percolator: New Telescopes!

35:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2025. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts!

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Special guests Alana Nisperos and Elettra Piacentino.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:35 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Alana

10:30 - Advert: Hot Drinks at Starducks

11:36 - Grab & Go Papers

26:10 - Advert: TangleTamer

27:14 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi + Elettra

39:57 - Percolator: How old is astrochemistry?

52:03 - Chalkboard

Elettra's paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09797v1

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2025.

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Special guests Patrick Sheehan and Jane Huang.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

2:18 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Patrick

13:12 - Advert: Thanksgiving at Starducks

14:27 - Grab & Go Papers

27:16 - Advert: GobbleStopper

28:21 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Jane

41:20 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

49:19 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2025.

Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ilsa

38:22 - Advert: Fall Flavors at Starducks

39:19 - Grab & Go Papers

51:31 - Advert: LeafBeGone 3000

52:28 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets

58:51 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Papers and Links from the Percolator:

• Orion Survey: Sutton et al. 1985 ApJS 58, 341
• Sgr B2 Survey: Nummelin et al. 1998 ApJS 117, 427
• TMC-1 Survey: Kaifu et al. 2004 PASJ 56, 69
• PRIMOS (Sgr B2): Neill et al. 2012 ApJ 755, 153
• TMC-1 GOTHAM: Xue et al. 2025 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06256)
• ASAI: Lefloch et al. 2018 MNRAS 477, 4792 (https://www.iram.fr/ILPA/LP007/)
• IRC+10216 Survey: Gong et al. 2015 A&A 574, A56
• Herschel HEXOS: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/irsa/10.26131/IRSA510
• ALMA MAPS: https://alma-maps.info/data.html
• CDMS: https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/
• JPL: https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/
• LSD: https://lsd.univ-lille.fr/
• Splatalogue: splatalogue.online
• KIDA: https://kida.astrochem-tools.org/
• UMIST: https://umistdatabase.uk/

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2025.

Guests this month are Jenny Calahan and Martin Cordiner. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Gabi + Jenny

16:25 - Advert: Last Rays Latte from Starducks

17:25 - Grab & Go Papers

30:29 - Advert: SunSlinger

31:45 - Single-Origin Brew: Martin + Brett

59:40 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Jenny's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06613

Martin's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of July 2025.

Guests this month are Becky Rapf and Stephen Kocheril. Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Coffee Chat: Becky + Brett

12:20 - Advert: Nebula Freeze from Starducks

13:21 - Grab & Go Papers

32:47 - Advert: Solar Eclipse Grilling

33:39 - Single-Origin Brew: Ilsa Cooke + Stephen Kocheril

54:14 - Percolator: The first interstellar comet

1:01 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Stephen's Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02504-y

Chalkboard this month has Jobs, but nothing new.

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Hello Everyone! Just a quick note here to let you all know that Astrochem Coffee for July of this year will be delayed just a bit due to summer holidays (the Dougs have collectively decided to take a vacation to Menorca for the next couple of weeks). This month's episode will come out mid-August, and then we'll back to regularly scheduled episode drops in early September. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer holidays as well.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2025.

Guests this month are Izaskun Jimenez-Serra and Bernadette Broderick. Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Gabi Wenzel co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Franciele + Izaskun

19:34 - Advert: Celestial Cold Brew from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: AstroSnipper 3000

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi Wenzel + Bernadette Broderick

1:02:00 - Barista Bootcamp: Desorption from ices

1:27:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Izaskun's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/03/aa52389-24/aa52389-24.html

Bernadette's Website: https://brodericklab.org/

Bernadette's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09888

Chalkboard this month has Jobs and Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2025.

Guests this month are Ugo Jacovella and Marten Raaphorst. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - Coffee Chat: Divita Gupta + Ugo Jacovella

19:34 - Advert: Solar Sips from Starducks

21:36 - Grab & Go Papers

40:28 - Advert: Sprout-Slinger 360

42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex Byrne + Marten Raaphorst

1:02:00 - Special: AI Podcast Discussion

1:27:00 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Ugo's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00323

Marten's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c0002

Chalkboard this month has Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2025.

Guests this month are Julia Santos and Hayley Bunn. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:36 - Advert: Mother's Day at Starducks

3:05 - Grab & Go Papers

20:55 - Advert: The Multi Matic

22:49 - Double Shot (Alex Byrne + Julia Santos, Divita Gupta with Hayley Bunn)

54:47 - Percolator: The discovery of exoplanets and our ability to probe their atmospheres

1:04:05 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Julia's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14010

Hayley's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adacea/meta

Chalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences.

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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2025.

Guests this month are Munan Gong and Wonju Kim. Divita Gupta co-hosts.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:11 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Munan Gong)

9:29 - Advert: Easter at Starducks

10:25 - Grab & Go Papers

28:05 - Advert: BasketBamboozler 3000

30:15 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita Gupta with Wonju Kim)

47:19 - Percolator: The first detection of a molecule in another galaxy

56:05 - Chalkboard

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: http://coffee.astrochem.net/.

Wonju's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51998-24/aa51998-24.html

Percolator Paper: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1971ApJ...167L..47W

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