Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop 2021

• Kathrin Altwegg (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Switzerland): Cometary Chemistry
• Jeroen Bouwman (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany): Observational Constraints
  on Dust Processing in Circumstellar Media and Exoplanetary Atmospheres
• Angela Ciaravella (Palermo Astronomical Observatory, Italy): Formation of Complex Organic Molecules in Ices Triggered by X-Rays
• Otto Dopfer (Technical University Berlin, Germany): Photochemical Properties of Silicon Clusters: Bridging the Gap Between Diatomics and Grains
• Wolf Geppert (Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre, Sweden): The Role of Ion Reactions in the Build-Up of Complex Organic Molecules
• Christiane Helling (Institut für Weltraumforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz): Physics and Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres
• Belén Maté (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain): Physical and Chemical Processes on Interstellar Ice and Dust Analogues: Recent Results at IEM-CSIC
• Cornelia Meinert (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France): The Cosmic Origin of Biomolecular Chirality
• Paul Molliere (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany): Modeling and Characterization of Cloudy Exoplanet Atmospheres
• Guillermo Muñoz Caro (Centro de Astrobiología, Torrejón de Ardoz Madrid, Spain): Formation of N-Heterocycles and S-Chains in UV-Photoprocessed Interstellar Ice Analogs
• Harald Mutschke (Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany): Measurements of Dust Optical Constants at Long Wavelengths and Low Temperatures
• Paul Scheier (Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria): Helium-Tagging Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Identification of Diffuse Interstellar Band Carriers
• Rens Waters (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Netherlands): Molecules, Ice and Dust: From the Interstellar Medium to Planets

The workshop will start on Monday, 22^nd  November, at 9:00 am and close on Wednesday, 24^th November 2021, at about 2:00 pm. Apart from invited talks, there will be a number of contributed talks and a poster session on Tuesday afternoon.

The programme of the workshopExternal link, the book of abstractpdf, 1 mb · de, and a list of all partcipantsExternal link are now available.

On Monday evening, the 22^nd November, we plan to have dinner for all participants in the Restaurant BauersfeldExternal link (Am Planetarium 5External link) in the center of Jena.

On Wednesday, the 24^th of November, we can offer a visit of our laboratory in Jena for interested participants.

Programme, Day 1 (22.11.2021). Dust, ice, and molecules

8:45 – 9:05 Registration

Session 1.

09:05 – 09:15 Introduction. Cornelia Jäger
09:15 – 10:00 Invited talk. Rens Waters “Molecules, Ice and Dust: from the Interstellar Medium to Planets” (online)
10:00 – 10:45 Invited talk. Harald Mutschke „Measurements of dust optical constants at long wavelengths and low temperatures” (online)
10:45 – 11:30 Coffee break + Registration
11:30 – 12:15 Invited talk. Belén Maté “Physical and chemical processes on interstellar ice and dust analogues: recent results at IEM-CSIC”pdf, 3 mb · de
12:15 – 12:35 Contributed talk. Jiao He “Refractive index and extinction coefficient of vapor deposited water ice in the UV-Vis range”pdf, 4 mb · de
12:35 – 12:55 Contributed talk. Franciele Kruczkiewicz “Merging THz-TDS and FTIR data for direct reconstruction of CO dielectric properties”pdf, 33 mb · de
12:55 – 13:15 Contributed talk. Will Rocha “Getting ready for JWST: introducing the new Leiden Ice Database and the ENIIGMA fitting tool”pdf, 33 mb · de
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch

Session 2.

14:30 – 15:15 Invited talk. Otto Dopfer “Photochemical properties of silicon clusters: Bridging the gap between diatomics and grains”pdf, 63 mb · de
15:15 – 16:00 Invited talk. Paul Scheier “Helium-tagging spectroscopy as a tool for the identification of diffuse interstellar band carriers” (online)
16:00 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:05 Contributed talk. Robert Radloff “Astrochemically-relevant silicon carbide clusters: Photodissociation and electronic properties”pdf, 15 mb · de
17:05 – 17:25 Contributed talk. Eileen Döring “High resolution IR spectroscopy on small metal bearing molecules”pdf, 3 mb · de
17:25 – 17:45 Contributed talk. Guido Fuchs “Mid-Infrared Observations of Late-type Stars at High Spectral Resolution”pdf, 9 mb · de
17:45 – 18:05 Contributed talk. Miguel Jiménez-Redondo “Study of low-temperature ion-neutral interactions in a 22-pole ion trap”pdf, 989 kb · de
18:05 – 18:25 Contributed talk. Valerio Lattanzi “High-Resolution Gas-Phase Spectroscopy for Astrophysics at CAS@MPE” (online)
19:30 Conference dinner

Programme, Day 2 (23.11.2021). Complex organic molecules and the origin of life.

Session 1.

09:00 – 09:45 Invited talk. Cornelia Meinert “The cosmic origin of biomolecular hirality” (online)pdf, 7 mb · de
09:45 – 10:30 Invited talk. Angela Ciaravella “Formation of complex organic molecules in ices triggered by X-rays”pdf, 4 mb · de
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break + Poster session
11:15 – 12:00 Invited talk. Guillermo Munoz Caro “Formation of N-heterocycles and S-chains in UV-photoprocessed interstellar ice analogs”pdf, 22 mb · de
12:00 – 12:20 Contributed talk. Ko-Ju Chuang “Formamide formation in H2O-rich and CO-rich interstellar ice analogs”pdf, 2 mb · de
12:20 – 12:40 Contributed talk. Riccardo Urso “Energetic processing of methanol-rich ices”pdf, 8 mb · de
12:40 – 13:00 Contributed talk. Gayatri Batra “Exploring silicon chemistry in the electrical discharge of methyl phenyl silane (MPS) using chirped-pulse Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy” (online)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

Session 2.

14:00 – 14:45 Invited talk. Wolf Geppert “Astrobiology and the origin of life” (online)
14:45 – 15:30 Invited talk. Kathrin Altwegg “Cometary chemistry”pdf, 45 mb · de
15:30 – 16:15 Coffee break + Poster session
16:15 – 16:35 Contributed talk. Diksha Garg “Fragmentation Dynamics of Fluorene, on Femtosecond Timescales”
(online)
16:35 – 16:55 Contributed talk. Tushar Suhasaria “A novel UHV setup with MALDI-high resolution masspdf, 4 mb · de
spectrometry for the in-situ detection of biomolecules”pdf, 4 mb · de
16:55 – 17:15 Contributed talk. Parker Crandall “Optical Properties of Simple Diamondoid Cations and Theirpdf, 5 mb · de
Astrochemical Relevance”pdf, 5 mb · de
17:15 – 17:35 Contributed talk. Taarna Studemund “Small SinOm+ Clusters - Photodissociation & Opticalpdf, 8 mb · de
Absorption Properties”pdf, 8 mb · de
17:35 – 17:55 Contributed talk. Dima Semenov “Sensitivity of gas-grain chemical models to surface reactionpdf, 1 mb · de
barriers: Effect from a key carbon-insertion reaction, C + H2 → CH2”pdf, 1 mb · de

18:00 – 19:00 Poster session

Online
18:00 – 18:05 Donatella Loru “Revealing the chemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by plasma sources”
18:05 – 18:10 Holger Kreckel “Astrochemistry at the Cryogenic Storage Ring”
18:10 – 18:15 Annika Oetjens, Aigars Znotins “Preparations for experiments with triatomic hydrogen ions at the Cryogenic Storage Ring”
18:15 – 18:20 Philipp Schmid “Sneaking into the astrochemistry of chlorine: Gas-phase IR action spectroscopy of CH2Cl+ and CH3ClH+”
18:20 – 18:25 Elham Ghavidel “Electronic transitions in Rb²⁺ dimers solvated in Helium”
18:25 – 18:30 Stefan Bergmeister “Atomic and molecular clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets”18:30 – 18:35 Miriam Meyer “Action Spectroscopy of PAH Ions Using the Helium Droplet Technique
18:30 – 18:35 Miriam Meyer “Action Spectroscopy of PAH Ions Using the Helium Droplet Technique

18:35 – 18:40 Akemi Tamanei ''Experimental Molecular Emission Spectrum of Cpdf, 384 kb · de₂Hpdf, 384 kb · de₄O in ALMA Band 6 with an ALMA-Type Cartridge Receiver''pdf, 384 kb · de

In presence
Oskar Asvany “Rotational action spectroscopy of CN⁺, CH₂NH₂⁺ and CH₃NH₃⁺”
Luis Bonah “LLWP – A new Loomis-Wood Software at the Example of Propanone-¹³C1”
Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini “Chemical and physical processes caused by electrons impacting on H₂O-CO mixed
ices”
Victor Herrero “Polymerization in C₂H₂ plasmas used for the generation of interstellar dust analogues”
Bettina Heyne “Characterizing home-built chirped-pulse spectrometers for complex molecules of astrophysical
interest”
Matin Kaufmann “Spectroscopy of molecular glow discharge products using REMPI”
Christian Kranhold “Semiconductor- & Metallic-Behavior of Iron(II) Sulfides: A Multi-Wavelengths Study”pdf, 1 mb · de
Fabian Peterß “Mid Infrared CW Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy in a Supersonic Jet”
Gael Rouillé “Gas-phase condensation of carbonated silicates”
Karel Vávra “Rotational Spectrum of Vinyl Isocyanate”

Programme, Day 3 (24.11.2021). Exoplanetary atmospheres and extraterrestrial life

Session 1.

09:00 – 09:45 Invited talk. Christiane Helling “Physics and Chemistry of planetary atmospheres” (online)
09:45 – 10:30 Invited talk. Paul Molliere “Modeling and Characterization of Cloudy Exoplanet Atmospheres”pdf, 36 mb · de
(online)pdf, 36 mb · de
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:20 Contributed talk. Dominic Samra “Mineral Snowflakes on Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Atmospheres”pdf, 42 mb · de
11:20 – 12:05 Invited talk. Jeroen Bouwman “Observational constraints on dust processing in circumstellar media
and exoplanetary atmospheres” (online)
12:05 – 13:05 Discussion on laboratory experiments relevant to exoplanetary atmospheres.
13:05 – 13:15 Final remarks. Cornelia Jäger
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Departure to Jena

Registration is closed.

The workshop will be held in the Old CastleExternal link of the three Dornburger Palaces, which are located high above the Saale Valley.

Dornburger Castles External link

07774 Dornburg-Camburg, Max-Krehan-Straße 4

The transport between Jena and Dornburg will be realised by bus transfer (WEIMAR-TOUR). The bus starts at 8:15 h at the bus stationExternal link in front of the Paradise Train Station (Paradiesbahnhof). In the evening, the bus stops at the bus parking place in the Bibliotheksweg, which is in a one minute walking distance to the Restaurant Bauersfeld and 5 minutes to the hotels. On the last day, the bus will directly go to the Paradise Train Station (Paradiesbahnhof). Here, you can find the map of the centerExternal link and a simplified mapExternal link with the bus departure and arrival. Participants, who come with their own cars can park on a parking placeExternal link very close to the castle. There are no parking fees.

There is no hotel in the village Dornburg. We will organise a daily transfer from Jena to Dornburg by bus. We have made block reservations for single and double rooms from 21.11. to 24.11.2021 in three different hotels. All of them are located in the center of the city.

Hotel ibis Jena CityExternal link (Teichgraben 1, D- 07743 Jena, Tel.: +49(0)3641 813-0, Fax: +49(0)3641 813-333, E-Mail: H2207@accor.com)

Single room - 77 €, double room - 89 € (breakfast included). Please send your reservation until 21.10.2021 with the keyword “LabAstro”.

Hotel & Restaurant SCHWARZER BÄRExternal link (Lutherplatz 2, D-07743 Jena, Tel:  +49 (0)3641 40600, Fax:  +49 (0)3641 406113, Mail: hotel@schwarzer-baer-jena.de)

Single room - 73,50 €, double rooms - 90 € (breakfast included). Please send your reservation until 14.10.2021 (now extended to 22.10.2021) with the keyword “LabAstro”.

Gaststätte "Zur Noll" GmbHExternal link (Oberlauengasse 19, D-07743 Jena, Tel:  +49 (0) 3641 59 77 0, Fax:  +49 (0) 3641 59 77 20, Homepage: www.zurnoll.deExternal link)

Single room - 65 €, double room - 81 € (breakfast – additionally 7 €). Reservation required until 31.10.2021 with the keyword “LabAstro”.

By train:

You can check available connections with Deutsche BahnExternal link (English version). For details on specific connections from the airports, see below. It is advisable to make a seat reservation if you travel with an ICE.

By train from different airports (Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin):

The trains (ICE) from Frankfurt go frequently and take about three and a half hours. The official name of the station for departure is Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf. There is no direct train to Jena. You have to change to a regional train in Erfurt. You arrive at the station Jena-West. There is again no direct connection between the Airports in Munich or Berlin and Jena. However, ICEs from Munich to Jena and Berlin to Jena run every hour. You have to change in Erfurt or Naumburg to regional trains. You arrive at the station Jena-West or Jena-Paradise, respectively.