Astrobiology
Two Columns
Publications
2007-2008 Publications
Ashbourn, S.F.M., Elsila, J.E., Dworkin, J.P., Bernstein, M.P., Sandford, S.A., and Allamandola, L.J. (2007). "Ultraviolet Photolysis of Anthracene in H2O Interstellar Ice Analogs: Potential Connection to Meteoritic Organics". Met. Planet. Sci. 42, 2035-2041.
Atreya, S. K., Mahaffy, P. R, and Wong, A. S. (2007). "Methane and Related Trace Species on Mars: Origin, Loss, Implications for Life, and Habitability". Planetary and Space Science, 55, 358-369.
Bada, J. L., B. Fegley, Jr., S. L. Miller, A. Lazcano, J. H. Cleaves, R. M. Hazen, and J. Chalmers (2007). "Debating Evidence for the Origin of Life on Earth". Science 315, 937-938.
Bitner, M.A., M.J. Richter, J.H. Lacy, T. Greathouse, D. Jaffe, & G.A. Blake, (2007). "TEXES Observations of Pure Rotational H2 Emission from AB Aur". Ap. J.(Letters), 661, L69.
Boehnhardt, H., M.J. Mumma, G.L. Villanueva, M.A. DiSanti, B.P. Bonev, M. Lippi (2008). "The unusual volatile composition of the periodic comet 8P/Tuttle: Addressing the Existence of an Inner Oort Cloud". Ap. J. 683:L71-L74.
Bonev, B. P, M. J. Mumma, Y. L. Radeva, M. A. DiSanti, E. L. Gibb, and G. L. Villanueva, (2008). "The Peculiar Volatile Composition of Comet 8P/Tuttle: A Contact Binary of Chemically Distinct Cometesimals?" Ap. J. 680:L61-L64.
Boogert, A. C. A., Pontoppidan, K. M., Knez, C., Lahuis, F., Kessler-Silacci, J., van Dishoeck, E. F., et al. (2008). "The c2d Spitzer Spectroscopic Survey of Ices around Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects. I. H2O and the 5-8 um Bands". ApJ, 678, 985.
Brown, J.M., G.A. Blake, C. Qi, C.P. Dullemond, & D.J. Wilner, (2008). "LkHa 300: Evidence for Dust Clearing through Resolved Submillimeter Imaging". Ap. J.(Letters), 675, L109.
Charnley S.B. & Rodgers, S.D., (2008a). "Interstellar Reservoirs of Cometary Matter". Space Sci. Rev., in press (published online March 5 2008).
Charnley S.B. & Rodgers, S.D., (2008b). "Clouds, Clumps, Cores & Comets - A Cosmic Chemical Connection?". Advances in Geosciences, in press.
Charnley, S. B. & Rodgers, S. D., (2008c). To appear in BioAstronomy 2007: "Theoretical Models of Complex Molecule Formation on Dust Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life", K. Meech et al. (eds.), ASP Conference Series.
Charnley S.B. et al. (2008) "Radio Observations of Recent Bright Comets". Astrobiology. 8, No. 2, 340.
Chiar, J. E., Ennico, K., Pendleton, Y. J., Boogert, A. C. A., Knez, C., Lada, C., Roellig, T., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Werner, M., & Whittet, D. C. B. (2007). "The Relationship between the Optical Depth of the 9.7 um Silicate Absorption Feature and Infrared Differential Extinction in Dense Clouds". Ap J, 666, L73.
Choi, M., K. Hamaguchi, J.-E. Lee, K. Tatematsu, (2008). "Centimeter Imaging of the R Coronae Australis Region"Astrophysical Journal (accepted June 2008, Astro-ph: 0806.4227).
Cooper, P. D., Moore, M. H., and Hudson, R. L. (2008). "Radiation Chemistry of H2O + O2 Ices". Icarus, 194, 379-388.
Deming, D. (2008). "Emergent Exoplanet Flux: Review of the Spitzer Results," Invited review to appear in the Proceedings of I.A.U. Symposium 253, "Transiting Planets" (Boston, MA, May 19-23, 2008), astro-ph/0808.1289.
Deming, D., Harrington, J., Laughlin, G., Seager, S., Navarro, S. B., Bowman, W. C., and Horning, K. (2007). "Spitzer Transit and Secondary Eclipse Photometry of GJ 436b," ApJ 667, L199.
Elsila, J.E, Dworkin, J.P., Bernstein, M.P., Martin, M.P., and Sandford, S. A. (2007). "Mechanisms of Amino Acid Formation in Interstellar Ice Analogs". Astrophys. J. 66, 911-918.
Ertem, G., Hazen, R. M. and Dworkin, J.P. (2007). "Sequence Analysis of Hetero-Trimer Fractions Formed by Montmorillonite Catalysis in the Reaction of Binary Monomer Mixtures". Astrobiology 7, 715-722.
Ertem, G., Snellinger-O'Brien, A. M., Ertem, M. C., Rogoff, D. A., Dworkin, J. P., Johnson, M. V., and Hazen, R. M. (2008). "Abiotic formation of RNA-like oligomers by montmorillonite catalysis: part II". Int. J. Astrobio 7, 1-7.
Fegley, Jr., B. and L. Schaefer (2008). "Cosmochemistry of the Biogenic Elements C, H, N, O, and S In Astrobiology From Simple Molecules to Primitive Life" (eds. V. A. Basiuk and R. Navarro-Gonzalez), American Scientific Publishers, in press.
Fegley, Jr., B. and L. Schaefer (2008). "Chemistry During Accretion of the Earth. I. Volatiles in the Steam Atmosphere". Meteoritical Society 2008 meeting (abstract).
Fegley, Jr., B. and L. Schaefer (2007). "Chemistry of Earth's Putative Steam Atmosphere". AGU Fall 2007 meeting (abstract).
Fegley, Jr., B. (2007). "Planetary Volatile Inventories and Atmospheres". Abstracts of papers 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL 25-29 March 2007, CHED-1672 (abstract).
Ferrante, R. F., Moore, M. H., Spiliotis, M. M., and Hudson, R. L. (2008). "Formation of Interstellar OCS: Radiation Chemistry and IR Spectra of Precursor Ices". Astrophysical Journal (in press)
Geminale A., Formisano V., Giuranna M. (2008). "Methane in Martian atmosphere: Average spatial, diurnal, and seasonal behaviour". Planetary and Space Science 56, 1194, 1203.
Glavin, D.P., Dworkin, J.P., & Sandford, S.A., (2008). "Detection of cometary amines in samples returned by Stardust". Met. Planet. Sci. 43, 399-413.
Hamaguchi, K., M. Choi, M. F. Corcoran, C.-S. Choi, K. Tatematsu, (2008). "Resolving a Class I Protostar Binary System with Chandra" Astrophysical Journal (accepted June 2008), Astro-ph: 0806.4226.
Hudson, R. L., Moore, M. H., Dworkin, J. P., Martin, M. P., and Pozun, Z. D. (2008). "Amino Acids from Ion-Irradiated Nitrile-Containing Ices". Astrobiology (in press)
Hudson, R. L., Palumbo, M. E, Strazzulla, G., Moore, M. H., Cooper, J., and Sturmer, S. J. (2008). "Laboratory Studies of the Chemistry of TNO Surface Materials". Chapter in The Solar System Beyond Neptune, University of Arizona Press.
Hyodo, Y., M. Tsujimoto, K. Hamaguchi, K. Koyama, S. Kitamoto, Y. Maeda, Y. Tsuboi, Y. Ezoe, (2008). "Suzaku Spectroscopy Study of the Extended X-Ray Emission in M17", Pub. Astr. Soc. Japan 60: 85.
Kisiel, Z., Pszczolkowski, L., Bialkowska-Jaworska, E., Charnley S.B. (2008). "Towards Quantifying the Prevalence of Primitive Membranes in the Galaxy: The Millimeter-Wave Rotational Spectrum of Pyruvic Acid". To appear in BioAstronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life, K. Meech et al. (eds.), ASP Conference Series.
Lis, D.C., Bockelee-Morvan D., Boissier, J., Crovisier J., Biver, N., Charnley S.B. (2008). "Hydrogen Isocyanide in Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Fragment B)". Astrophys. J., 675, L931.
Magee-Sauer, K., M. J. Mumma, M. A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, E. L. Gibb, B. P. Bonev, G. L. Villanueva (2008). "The organic composition of Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR): I. Evidence for an unusual organic chemistry". Icarus 194:347-356.
Mandell, Avi M. (2008). "Expanding and Improving the Search for Habitable Worlds". Invited talk to appear in proceedings of Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007: New Horizons in Astronomy", eds. A. Frebel, J. Maund, J. Shen, & M. Siegel.
Mandell, Avi M., Mumma, Michael, J. Blake, Geoffrey A., Bonev, Boncho P., Villanueva, Geronimo L., Salyk, Colette. (2008). "Discovery of OH in Circumstellar Disks Around Young Intermediate-Mass Stars". 2008, ApJ, 681, L25.
Martins, Z., Botta, O., Fogel, M. L., Sephton M. A., Glavin, D. P., Watson, J. S., Dworkin, J. P., Schwartz, A. W., and Ehrenfreund, P., (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite". Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 270, 130-136.
Martins, Z., Hofmann, B. A., Gnos, E., Greenwood, R. C., Verchovsky, A., Franchi, I. A., Jull, A. J. T., Botta, O., Glavin, D. P., Dworkin, J. P., and Ehrenfreund, P. (2007). "Amino acid composition, petrology, geochemistry, 14C terrestrial age and oxygen isotopes of the Shishr 033 CR chondrite". Met. Planet. Sci. 41, 1581-1596.
Moore, M. H., Ferrante, R. F., Hudson, R. L., and Stone, J. N. (2007). "Ammonia-Water Ice Laboratory Studies Relevant to Outer Solar System Surfaces". Icarus, 190, 260-273.
Moore, M. H., Hudson, R. L., and Carlson, R. W. (2007). "The Radiolysis of SO2 and H2S in Water Ice: Implications for the Icy Jovian Satellites". Icarus, 189, 409-423.
Narayanan, G., Snell, R. L., Erickson, N. A., Chung, A., Heyer, M., Yun, M. and Irvine, W. M. (2008). "Organic Compounds in Nearby Galaxies Measured with a New, Very Broadband Receiver Designed for the Large Millimeter Telescope", in Organic Matter in Space: IAU Symposium 251, eds. S. Kwok and S. Sandford, Cambridge University Press, in press.
Nuth, J. A., III; Johnson, N. M.; Manning, S., (2008). "A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Complex Organic Molecules in Protostellar Nebulae". Ap.J. 673(2), L225-L228.
Nuth III, Joseph A., Natasha M. Johnson & Steven Manning (2008). "A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Complex OrganicMolecules in Protostellar Nebulae", in Organic Matter in Space, Proceedings IAUSymposium No. 251, (S.Kwok & S.Sandford, eds.) pp.403 - 408.
Pasek, M.A., Dworkin, J. P., and Lauretta, D.S. (2007). "A Radical Pathway for Organic Phosphorylation During Schreibersite Corrosion with Implications for the Origin of Life". Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 71, 1721-1736.
Pontoppidan, K.M., G.A. Blake, E.F. van Dishoeck, A. Smette, M.I. Ireland, & J. Brown, J., (2008). "Spectro-astrometric Imaging of Molecular Gas within Protoplanetary Disk Gaps". Ap. J., in press.
Puchtel I.S., Walker R.J., James O.B. and Kring D.A. (2008). "Osmium isotope and highly siderophile element systematics of lunar impact melt rocks: Implications for the late accretion history of the Moon and Earth". Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 3022-3042
Qi, C., D.J. Wilner, G.A. Blake, & M.R. Hogerheijde, (2008). "Resolving the Chemistry in the Disk of TW Hydrae I. Deuterated Species". Ap. J., 681, 1396.
Radeva, Y. L., M. J. Mumma, B. P. Bonev, M. A. DiSanti, G. L. Villanueva, K. Magee-Sauer, E. L. Gibb, and H. A. Weaver, (in prep., 2008). "The Organic Composition of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) Revealed Through Infrared Spectroscopy" Ap. J.
Raymond, Sean N.; Barnes, Rory; Mandell, Avi M. "Observable consequences of planet formation models in systems with close-in terrestrial planets". MNRAS, 384, 663.
Rodgers, S.D & Charnley S.B. (2008a). "Nitrogen Superfractionation in Dense Cloud Cores". MNRAS: Letters, 385, L48.
Rodgers, S.D & Charnley S.B. (2008b). "Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation of Interstellar Nitriles". Astrophys. J., in press.
Salyk, C., G.A. Blake, A.C.A. Boogert, & J.M. Brown, (2007). "Molecular Gas in the Inner 1 AU of the TW Hya and GM Aur Transitional Disks". Ap. J. 655, L105.
Salyk, C., K.M. Pontoppidan, G.A. Blake, F. Lahuis, E.F. van Dishoeck, & N.J. Evans II, N.J., (2008). "H2O and OH Gas in the Terestrial Planet-Forming Zones of Protoplanetary Disks". Ap. J.(Letters)} 676, L49.
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2008). "Composition of Atmospheres Formed by Impact Degassing of Planetesimals During Earths Formation". Icarus, in preparation.
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2008). "Chemistry During Accretion of the Earth. II. Rock-forming Elements in the Steam Atmosphere". Meteoritical Society 2008 meeting (abstract).
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2008). "Volatile Element Chemistry during Metamorphism of Ordinary Chondritic Material". Icarus, in revision.
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2007). "Chemistry and Composition of Planetary Atmospheres", pp. 187-207. In Chemical Evolution Across Space and Time From the Big Bang to Prebiotic Chemistry (eds. L. Zaikowski and J. M. Friedrich), ACS Symposium Series 981, Oxford Univ. Press.
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2007). "Trace Element Chemistry during Metamorphism on Ordinary Chondrite Parent Bodies". Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXVIII, abstract no. 2280.
Schaefer, L. and B. Fegley, Jr. (2007). "Outgassing of Ordinary Chondritic Material and Some of its Implications for the Chemistry of Asteroids, Planets, and Satellites". Icarus 186, 462-483.
ten Kate I. L., Canham J. S., Conrad P. G., Errigo Th., Katz I., Mahaffy P. R. (2008), "Mitigation of the impact of terrestrial contamination on organic measurements from the Mars Science Laboratory, Astrobiology 8 (3), DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.016.
Wang, K-S., Kuan, Y-J., Liu, S-Y., Huang, H-C., Charnley, S. B. (2008). "Organic Molecules in the Orion-KL Hot Molecular Core". To appear in BioAstronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life, K. Meech et al. (eds.), ASP Conference Series.
