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Theory & Observation Group Publications

Theory & Observation Group – Publications

Dufour, G., and S. B. Charnley. 2021. "New Bistable Solutions in Molecular Cloud Chemistry: Nitrogen and Carbon Autocatalysis." The Astrophysical Journal. 909 (2): 171 [10.3847/1538-4357/abe1c6]

Roth, N. X., B. P. Bonev, M. A. DiSanti, et al. 2021. "The Volatile Composition of the Inner Coma of Comet 46P/Wirtanen: Coordinated Observations Using iSHELL at the NASA-IRTF and Keck/NIRSPEC-2." The Planetary Science Journal. 2 (2): 54 [10.3847/psj/abd706/54]

Roth, N. X., S. N. Milam, Cordiner, M.A., et al. 2021. Rapidly Varying Anisotropic Methanol (CH3OH) Production in the Inner Coma of Comet 46P/Wirtanen as Revealed by the ALMA Atacama Compact Array. The Planetary Science Journal. 2 (2): 55 [10.3847/psj/abdd3a]

Roth, N. X., S. N. Milam, Cordiner, M.A., et al. 2021. "Leveraging the ALMA Atacama Compact Array for Cometary Science: An Interferometric Survey of Comet C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS) and Evidence for a Distributed Source of Carbon Monosulfide." The Astrophysical Journal. (In Press)

Cordiner, M.A. and S. B. Charnley. 2021. "Neutral-neutral synthesis of organic molecules in cometary comae" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504: 5041 [10.1093/mnras/stab1123]

Cordiner, M.A., Garcia-Berrios, E.; Cosentino, R. G.; Teanby, N. A.; Newman, C. E.; Nixon, C. A.; Thelen, A. E.; Charnley, S. B. 2020. “Detection of Dynamical Instability in Titan's Thermospheric Jet” The Astrophysical Journals Letters 904: L12 [10.3847/2041-8213/abc688]

Cordiner, M.A., Milam, S.N., Biver, N., et al. 2020. “Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comet.” Nature Astronomy 4: 861–866. [10.1038/s41550-020-1087-2]

Allen, V., F. F. van der Tak, A. López-Sepulcre, et al. 2020. “Exploring the formation pathways of formamide near young O-type stars.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 636 A67 [10.1051/0004-6361/201935791]

Roth, N. X., E. L. Gibb, B. P. Bonev, et al. 2020. “Probing the Evolutionary History of Comets: An Investigation of the Hypervolatiles CO, CH4, and C2H6 in the Jupiter-family Comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner.” The Astronomical Journal 159 (2): 42 [10.3847/1538-3881/ab536b]

Dufour, G., and S. B. Charnley. 2019. “Astrochemical Bistability: Autocatalysis in Oxygen Chemistry.” The Astrophysical Journal 887 (1): 67 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab4e9c]

Yocum, K. M., H. H. Smith, E. W. Todd, et al. 2019. “Millimeter/Submillimeter Spectroscopic Detection of Desorbed Ices: A New Technique in Laboratory Astrochemistry.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123 (40): 8702-8708 [10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04587]

Cordiner, M. A., N. A. Teanby, C. A. Nixon, et al. 2019. “ALMA Spectral Imaging of Titan Contemporaneous with Cassini's Grand Finale.” The Astronomical Journal 158 (2): 76 [10.3847/1538-3881/ab2d20]

Cordiner, M. A., Linnartz, H., Cox, N. L. J., et al. 2019. “Confirming Interstellar C60 + Using the Hubble Space Telescope.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters 875 (2): L28 [10.3847/2041-8213/ab14e5]

Allen, V., F. F. van der Tak, and C. Walsh. 2018. “Complex cyanides as chemical clocks in hot cores.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 616 A67 [10.1051/0004-6361/201732553]

Holler, B. J., S. N. Milam, J. M. Bauer, et al. 2018. “Solar system science with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4 (03): 1 [10.1117/1.jatis.4.3.034003]

Battersby, C., L. Armus, E. Bergin, et al. 2018. “The Origins Space Telescope.” Nature Astronomy 2 (8): 596-599 [10.1038/s41550-018-0540-y]

de Val-Borro, M., S. N. Milam, M. A. Cordiner, et al. 2017. “Measuring molecular abundances in comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) using the APEX telescope.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474 (1): 1099-1107 [10.1093/mnras/stx2802]