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Laboratory Astrochemistry

From Molecules through Nanoparticles to Grains

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  1. Oskar Asvany
  2. Universität zu Köln
  3. I. Physikalisches Institut
  4. Zülpicher Straße 77
  5. 50937 Köln
  6. Germany
  1. Yvain Carpentier
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. and
  1. Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers
  2. Atomes et Molécules Université de Lille 1
  3. F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
  4. France
  1. Mark Collings
  2. Heriot-Watt University
  3. Institute of Chemical Sciences
  4. Riccarton
  5. Edinburgh EH14 4AS
  6. UK
  1. Olivier Debieu
  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
  3. Laborastrophysik- und Clusterphysikgruppe
  4. am Institut für Festkörperphysik
  5. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  6. Helmholtzweg 3
  7. D-07743 Jena
  8. Germany
  1. and
  1. CIRIMAT-ENSIACET
  2. 4, allee Emile Monso
  3. BP 44362
  4. 31030 Toulouse CEDEX 4
  5. France
  1. Ewine F. van Dishoeck
  2. Leiden University
  3. Leiden Observatory
  4. Niels Bohrweg 2
  5. NL-2333 CA Leiden
  6. The Netherlands
  1. Francois Dulieu
  2. Cergy-Pontoise University
  3. LERMA
  4. 5, mai Gay Lussac
  5. 95031 Cergy Pontoise
  6. France
  1. Jean-Hugues Fillion
  2. UPMC
  3. LERMA
  4. 4 Place Jussieu
  5. 75252 Paris
  6. France
  1. Hans-Peter Gail
  2. Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik
  3. Zentrum für Astronomie
  4. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
  5. Universität Heidelberg
  6. D-69120 Heidelberg
  7. Albert-Ueberle-Str. 2
  8. Germany
  1. Wolf Geppert
  2. Stockholm University
  3. Department of Molecular Physics
  4. Roslagstullsbacken 21C
  5. 106 91 Stockholm
  6. Sweden
  1. Thomas Giesen
  2. Universität Kassel
  3. Institut für Physik
  4. Fachbereich 10 - Physik
  5. Fachgruppe Laborastrophysik
  6. Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40
  7. 34132 Kassel
  8. Germany
  1. Juraj Glosik
  2. Charles University
  3. Department of Surface and Plasma Science
  4. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
  5. V Holešovičkách 2
  6. 18000 Prague
  7. Czech Republic
  1. Olivier Guillois
  2. Service des Photons
  3. Atomes et Molécules
  4. CEA Saclay
  5. F-91191 Gif/Yvette Cedex
  6. France
  1. Thomas Henning
  2. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  3. Königstuhl 17
  4. D-69117 Heidelberg
  5. Germany
  1. Eric Herbst
  2. University of Virginia
  3. Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy
  4. Charlottesville
  5. VA 22904
  6. USA
  1. Liv Hornekær
  2. Aarhus University
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Ny Munkegade 1520
  5. 8000 Aarhus C
  6. Denmark
  1. Friedrich Huisken
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. Sergio Ioppolo
  2. Radboud University Nijmegen
  3. Nijmegen Institute for Molecules and Materials
  4. P.O. Box 9010
  5. NL-6500 GL Nijmegen
  6. The Netherlands
  1. and
  1. California Institute of Technology
  2. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
  3. 1200 E. California Blvd.
  4. Pasadena, California 91125
  5. USA
  1. Cornelia Jäger
  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
  3. Laborastrophysik- und Clusterphysikgruppe
  4. am Institut für Festkörperphysik
  5. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  6. Helmholtzweg 3
  7. D-07743 Jena
  8. Germany
  1. Chiyoe Koike
  2. Ritsumeikan University
  3. Department of Physics
  4. Kusatsu
  5. Shiga 525-8577
  6. Japan
  1. Holger Kreckel
  2. Max-Planck-Institut for Nuclear Physics
  3. Saupfercheckweg 1
  4. 69117 Heidelberg
  5. Germany
  1. Harold Linnartz
  2. University of Leiden
  3. Leiden Observatory
  4. Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics
  5. PO Box 9513
  6. 2300 RA Leiden
  7. The Netherlands
  1. John P. Maier
  2. University of Basel
  3. Department of Chemistry
  4. Klingelbergstrasse 80
  5. 4056 Basel
  6. Switzerland
  1. Martin McCoustra
  2. Heriot-Watt University
  3. Institute of Chemical Sciences
  4. Riccarton
  5. Edinburgh EH14 4AS
  6. UK
  1. Vito Mennella
  2. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
  3. Via Moiariello 16
  4. 80131 Napoli
  5. Italy
  1. Holger S.P. Müller
  2. Universität zu Köln
  3. I. Physikalisches Institut
  4. Zülpicher Strasse 77
  5. 50937 Köln
  6. Germany
  1. Harald Mutschke
  2. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  3. Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte
  4. Schillergäßchen 2-3
  5. D-07745 Jena
  6. Germany
  1. Joseph A. Nuth
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  3. Mail Code 691
  4. Greenbelt, MD 20771
  5. USA
  1. Karin I. Öberg
  2. Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  3. 60 Garden Street
  4. Cambridge, MA 02138
  5. USA
  1. Jos Oomens
  2. Radboud University
  3. Institute for Molecules and Materials
  4. FELIX Facility
  5. Toernooiveld 7
  6. 6525 ED Nijmegen
  7. The Netherlands
  1. and
  1. University of Amsterdam
  2. Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
  3. Science Park 904
  4. 1098 XH Amsterdam
  5. The Netherlands
  1. Maria Elisabetta Palumbo
  2. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania - INAF
  3. Via Santa Sofia 78
  4. 95123 Catania
  5. Italy
  1. David Parker
  2. Radboud University Nijmegen
  3. Department of Molecular and Laser Physics
  4. Institute for Molecules and Materials
  5. Heijendaalseweg 135
  6. 6525 AJ Nijmegen
  7. The Netherlands
  1. Olivier Pirali
  2. Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay
  3. UMR8214 CNRS – Université Paris-Sud
  4. Bât. 210
  5. 91405 Orsay cedex
  6. France
  1. and
  1. AILES Beamline
  2. Synchrotron SOLEIL
  3. L'Orme des Merisiers
  4. Saint-Aubin
  5. 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
  6. France
  1. Thomas Posch
  2. Universität Wien
  3. Institut für Astrophysik
  4. Türkenschanzstraße 17
  5. A-1180 Vienna
  6. Austria
  1. Karsten Potrick
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. Stephen D. Price
  2. University College London (UCL)
  3. Chemistry Department
  4. 20 Gordon Street
  5. London WC1H 0AJ
  6. UK
  1. Frans J. M. Rietmeijer
  2. University of New Mexico
  3. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  4. 221 Yale Boulevard NE
  5. Albuquerque
  6. NM 87131.0001
  7. USA
  1. Corey A. Rice
  2. University of Basel
  3. Department of Chemistry
  4. Klingelbergstrasse 80
  5. 4056 Basel
  6. Switzerland
  1. Gaël Rouillé
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. Daniel Wolf Savin
  2. Columbia University, Astrophysics Laboratory
  3. MC 5247
  4. 550 West 120th Street
  5. New York, NY 10027-6601
  6. USA
  1. Stephan Schlemmer
  2. Universität zu Köln
  3. I. Physikalisches Institut
  4. Zülpicher Straße 77
  5. 50937 Köln
  6. Germany
  1. Torsten Schmidt
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. and
  1. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
  2. Material Physics
  3. ICT School
  4. Electrum 229
  5. SE-164 40 Kista-Stockholm
  6. Sweden
  1. Mathias Steglich
  2. Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  3. Laboratory Astrophysics Group
  4. of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  5. Helmholtzweg 3
  6. D-07743 Jena
  7. Germany
  1. and
  1. University of Basel
  2. Department of Chemistry
  3. Klingelbergstrasse 80
  4. CH-4056 Basel
  5. Switzerland
  1. Akemi Tamanai
  2. Universität Heidelberg
  3. Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik
  4. Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
  5. D-69120 Heidelberg
  6. Germany
  1. Alexander G.G.M. Tielens
  2. Leiden University
  3. Leiden Observatory
  4. PO Box 9513
  5. 2300 RA Leiden
  6. The Netherlands
  1. Ruud Visser
  2. University of Michigan
  3. Department of Astronomy
  4. 1085 S. University Ave
  5. Ann Arbor, MI 48109– 1107
  6. USA
  1. Malcolm Walmsley
  2. INAF
  3. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
  4. Largo E. Fermi 5
  5. 50125 Firenze
  6. Italy
  1. and
  1. Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (Cosmic Physics)
  2. 31 Fitzwilliam Place
  3. Dublin 2
  4. Ireland
  1. Laurent Wiesenfeld
  2. Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble
  3. 414, Rue de la Piscine
  4. Domaine Universitaire
  5. BP 53
  6. 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09
  7. France
  1. Andreas Wolf
  2. Max-Planck-Institut for Nuclear Physics
  3. Saupfercheckweg 1
  4. 69117 Heidelberg
  5. Germany
  1. Simon Zeidler
  2. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  3. Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte
  4. Schillergäßchen 2-3
  5. D-07745 Jena
  6. Germany
  1. and
  1. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  2. Gravitational Wave Project Office
  3. Osawa 2-21-1
  4. Mitaka
  5. Tokyo 181-8588
  6. Japan

Preface

The field of laboratory astrophysics is well established and developing various branches of dedicated research in laboratories to provide astronomy with elementary data for the interpretation of their observations. Over the past 20 years, the branch that deals with molecular physics, chemical physics, and the physics and chemistry of dust particles became very active. As a result, laboratory astrochemistry is an important area of research around the globe. In view of today's needs to interpret the richness of observations in the era of the Herschel or ALMA obersvatories, much of the atomic and molecular data is stored in a growing number of databases like those for chemical reaction rates and those for molecular spectroscopy. In recent years, even a common framework for these databases has been developed in order to access many databases at the same time as this is needed for the interpretation of the vast information from the detailed astronomical observations.

A concerted development of laboratory astrochemistry became possible through continuous funding on national and international levels and through a strong exchange between the groups active in this field of research. Especially, the different European training networks and COST activities as well as the establishment of a Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) within the American Astronomical Society helped scientists to create awareness of this new and growing discipline and to attract students to work in this field. In the course of these developments, we felt that it could be helpful for new graduate students or fellow scientists to be introduced to the very different approaches of laboratory astrochemistry. The field is already too wide that one book could address all topics in great detail. Instead the idea of this book was to compile chapters on molecular spectroscopy, photodissociation, gas-phase processes, surfaces of grains, dust formation, and their spectroscopic properties.

In order to fit into one book, each chapter has an introductory section which is followed by a small set of contributions summarizing some recent advances. This attempt could by no means be comprehensive. Instead our intention is that reading the various chapters guides and encourages newcomers to then look up original work.

We would like to thank the chapter authors for their activities to bring together a number of coauthors contributing to the individual chapters. We are grateful to those authors for their participation and, in particular, for the patience to finish this work. Especially, we want to thank Malcom Walmsley for the introductory chapter to this book where he highlights the need of laboratory astrochemistry for the interpretation of astronomical observations. Several other people helped to prepare this work and we want to thank them and all coauthors for the patience and endurance to complete thiswork.

October 2014

Stephan Schlemmer, Thomas Giesen,

Harald Mutschke and Cornelia Jäger