NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop

May 01 - 03, 2002
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

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Mian M. ABBAS, Paul D. Craven, James F. Spann, et al.; (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama); Dragana Tankosic; (University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama)

Laboratory studies of the optical properties and condensation processes of cosmic dust particles

L. J. ALLAMANDOLA; (Astrochemistry Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center)

Infrared emission from interstellar PAHs, new probes of the interstellar medium

Aldo J. APPONI, Lucy M. Ziurys, Philip M. Sheridan, Matthew A. Brewster, Chandra Savage; The University of Arizona, Depts Chemisty and Astronomy, 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721

Submillimeter spectroscopy of astrophysically important metal-containing molecules

J.F. BABB and K. Kirby; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138; H.-K. Chung; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550

Theoretical studies of pressure broadened alkali-metal atom resonance lines

E.L.O. BAKES, Hiroshi Imanaka, S. Lebonnois, C.W. Bauschlicher and C.P. McKay

The role of laboratory investigations in elucidating the nature of organic molecules in the titan haze

E.L.O. BAKES, C.W. Bauschlicher, and A.G.G.M. Tielens

A state of the art infrared spectral analysis of the chemical evolution of carbonaceous molecules during star formation

Ehud BEHAR, Steven M. Kahn, Frits Paerels; Columbia University

Observations of inner-shell soft X-ray absorption

P. BEIERSDORFER, H. Chen, M. May, D. Thorn; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, R. L. Kelley, F. S. Porter, C. K. Stahle, A. Szymkowiak; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; S. M. Kahn; Columbia University

Laboratory studies of the X-ray emission generated by the interaction of solar wind heavy ions with comets
Edwin BERGIN; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Missing pieces in our understanding of astrochemistry: The answers are in the lab [invited talk]

L. BIENNIER, F. Salama, L. J. Allamandola; NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; J. J. Scherer, A. O'Keefe; Los Gatos Research, 67 East Evelyn Ave., Suite 3, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA

Gas phase spectroscopy of cold PAH ions: Contribution to the interstellar extinction and the diffuse interstellar bands

W. J. BORUCKI and David G. Koch; (NASA Ames Research Center),; Gibor Basri; (Univ. Calif., Berkeley, CA),; William Cochran; (Univ. Tex., Austin, TX),; Edward W. Dunham; (Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ); Ronald Gilliland; (STScI, Balitmore, MD); Jon M.

Stellar and planetary data products expected from the Kepler mission

G. V. BROWN {Currently supported by an NRC research associateship}, K. R. Boyce, R. L. Kelley, F. S. Porter, C. K. Stahle, A.E. Szymkowiak, and W. Tillotson; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M. J. May, and D. Thorn; Lawrence Liv

Laboratory astrophysics at the LLNL electron beam ion traps EBIT-I & EBIT-II

G. V. BROWN; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M. H. Chen, and K. J. Reed; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Laboratory study of the diagnostic utility of the 3C/3D line ratio in Fe XVII

L. R. BROWN; (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA); and M. Dulick; (National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ)

Empirical line intensities of methane in the near-infrared

G.M. Muñoz CARO, 1; U.J. Meierhenrich,2; W.A. Schutte,1 B. Barbier2, A. Arcones Segovia,1; H. Rosenbauer,3 W.H.-P. Thiemann,4 A. Brack,2 J.M. Greenberg1; (1. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics at Leide, The Netherlands); (2. Centre d

Formation of chiral organic molecules in simulated dense cloud environments

Pisin CHEN; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309

A facility for laboratory astrophysics using high intensity particle and photon beams

A. CHUTJIAN, Steven J. Smith, and J. A. Lozano; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA

Measurement of absolute excitation cross sections in highly-charged ions using electron energy loss and merged beams

A. CHUTJIAN, I. Cadez, J. B. Greenwood, R. J. Mawhorter, and S. J. Smith; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA

Laboratory measurements of solar-wind/comet X-ray emission and charge-exchange cross sections

Geoffrey C. CLAYTON, L. Valencic; Lousiana State University; K. D. Gordon; Steward Observatory; M.J. Wolff; SSI

Unification: UV & IR observations of interstellar dust along the same sightlines

R. J. CODY W. A. Payne, R. P. Thorne, Jr., P. N. Romani, L. J. Stief (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), F. L. Nesbitt (Coppin State College), M. A. Iannone (Millersville University), D. C. Tardy (University of Iowa)

Temperature dependence of the rate constant for the CH3 recombination reaction: a loss process in outer planet atmospheres

Mark P. COLLINGS, Helen Fraser, John W. Dever and Martin R.S.McCoustra; (School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK)

Laboratory surface science: The key to the gas-grain interaction

David M. CORNELISON and T.R. Dillingham; Northern Arizona University

Color changes in ices due to irradiation by ultraviolet and X-ray photons

P. C. COSBY, D. L. Huestis, and J. R. Peterson; (Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International)

Experimental measurements of dissociative recombination relevant to planetary atmospheres

Dale P. CRUIKSHANK; (NASA Ames Research Center)

A solar system perspective on laboratory astrophysics [invited talk]

J. B. DALTON; NASA-Ames Research Center

Cryogenic reflectance spectra in support of planetary missions

Louis B. D’HENDECOURT; (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, "Astrochimie Expérimentale,"; Campus d'Orsay, ORSAY, FRANCE)

The PAH hypothesis: A dream or a nightmare for astrophysicists? [invited talk]

B. J. DROUIN, J.C. Pearson, H. M. Pickett and P. Chen; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-301, Pasadena, CA 91109

Microwave, millimeter, submillimeter and far infrared spectroscopy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jason P. DWORKIN*, Scott A. Sandford, Max P. Bernstein*, and Louis J.Allamandola; NASA-Ames Research Center, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA; *Also of the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 2035 Landings Drive, Mountain Vi

The laboratory production of complex organic molecules in simulated interstellar ices

Brian EICHELBERGER, Theodore Snow*, Cynthia Barckholtz, Momir Stepanovic,; and Veronica Bierbaum; (University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry); (*University of Colorado at Boulder, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astrono

Laboratory anion chemistry: implications for the dibs, and a potential formation mechanism for a known interstellar neutral molecule

M. Samy EL-SHALL and Michael Meot-Ner; Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2006

Organic chemistry and nanoparticles in astrophysics

Gary J. FERLAND; (Dept. of Physics, University of Kentucky)

Laboratory astrophysics' needs for understanding photoionized plasmas

George J. FLYNN; (Dept. of Physics, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY)

Synchrotron FTIR examination of interplanetary dust particles: An effort to determine the compounds and minerals in interstellar and circumstellar dust

H. J. FRASER, E. F. van Dishoeck; Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Unviersity, Postbus 9513, 2300RA, Leiden, Netherlands; X. Tielens; Kapteyn Institute, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Postbus 800, 9700AV, Groningen; Netherland

Deciphering chemical reactions in icy environments

Friedemann FREUND (1), Minoru Freund (2), Aaron Staple (3), and John Scoville(4); 1. SETI Institute/SJSU/NASA Ames; 2. NASA GSFC; 3. Stanford University; 4. University of Kentucky

Nature of the organic signature in dust from the interstellar medium: laboratory analog studies

Friedemann T. FREUND (1), John Scoville (2), Reimer Holm (3), Rudolf Seelemann3,; and Minoru M. Freund (2); 1. SETI Institute/SJSU/NASA Ames; 2. University of Kentucky; 3. BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany); 4. NASA GSFC

C-H hot bands in the near-IR emission spectra of leonids

Perry A. GERAKINES and Thomas J. Wdowiak; Astro- and Solar-System Physics Program, Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH310, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170

Maldi-TOF MS technology considerations relevant to an exobiology surface-science approach for Europa

Thomas F. GIESEN; (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany)

Laboratory spectroscopy of interstellar molecules

A.E. GLASSGOLD; (New York University and University of California, Berkeley)

Microscopic processes in X-ray modulated star formation

T. W. GORCZYCA and O. Zatsarinny; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Computation of dielectronic recombination data for the oxygen-like isoelectronic sequence

T. W. GORCZYCA; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University,; Kalamazoo, MI 49008; N. R. Badnell; Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK; D. W. Savin; Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia Uni

Shortcomings of the R-matrix method for treating dielectronic recombination

Carl A. GOTTLIEB, Philip C. Myers, Edwin A. Bergin, and Patrick Thaddeus; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Mario Tafalla; Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Alfonso XII, 3, E-28014 Madrid, Spain

Precise laboratory measurements of line frequencies useful to studies of star and planet formation

James GREEN (Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

The cosmic origins spectrograph

Tom GREENE (NASA Ames Research Center)

The Sofia mission and laboratory astrophysics synergies

U. GRIESMANN and W. L. Wiese: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Atomic oscillator strengths by emission spectroscopy and lifetime measurements

Murthy S. GUDIPATI (1,3) Richard A. Copeland (2), Marshall L. Ginter (1); (1) Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; (2) Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo

Temperature dependent collisional energy transfer of N2 (A, V = 0 and 1): The upper state of LBH-emission

Murthy S. GUDIPATI; Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland,} College Park, MD 20742; and; Visiting Scientist at Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA; 94025

Near-infrared emission of highly excited CO - A more sensitive method to probe the interstellar matter??

Martin HARWIT, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University

Current and future space missions. Great questions of the next decade in connection with laboratory astrophysics [introductory talk]

C. C. HAVENER, C. R. Vane, and H. F. Krause; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physics Division, P.O. Box 2008, MS 6372 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6372; D. W. Savin; Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027

Laboratory measurements of charge transfer on atomic hydrogen at thermal energies

Martin HEAD-GORDON (1), Jennifer L. Weisman (1), and Timothy J. Lee (2); 1) Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, and,; 2) NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035

Electronic structure calculations on excited states of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ions

R. F. HEETER, M. E. Foord, D. A. Liedahl, and P. T. Springer; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-043; P.O.Box 808; Livermore, CA 94551; J. E. Bailey and M. E. Cuneo; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque; F. Keenan, M. Phillips and P. van Hoof;

Benchmarking accretion disk models using photoionized laboratory plasmas

Thomas HENNING; Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory (AIU), Schillergasschen 3, D-07745 Jena, Germany; and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Nanoparticles in space and the laboratory [invited talk]

E. HERBST, F. C. De Lucia, R. A. H. Butler, M. Winnewisser; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43221

The submillimeter-wave spectra of interstellar molecules

David L. HUESTIS; Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Jeffery A. Spirko and A. Peet Hickman; Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015

Charge transfer collisions in ionospheres, exospheres, and interstellar clouds

Hantao JI, Masaaki Yamada, and Russell Kulsrud; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

Laboratory study of physics of magnetic reconnection

William E. JOHNSTON, Tom Hinke, Tony Lissota, Piyush Mehrotra, and Arsi Vaziri; (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Computing and data grids: infrastructure for large-scale collaborative science

M. JURA; UCLA

SIRTF: Goals and requirements

Steven M. KAHN; Columbia University

High energy astrophysics - X-ray spectroscopy and atomic data [invited talk]

K. S. KALOGERAKIS G. Amaral, T. G. Slanger P. C. Cosby, D. L. Huestis, and R. A. Copeland; Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Research on electronically- and vibrationally-excited O2, with application to planetary and terrestrial atmospheres

Kate KIRBY

Report Talk: ICAMDATA & APiP

Victor H.S. KWONG, De Chen, and H. Gao; Department of Physics, UNLV, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154

Charge transfer between S2+ and H2 at electron volt energies

J. Martin LAMING; Space Science Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375; Jacob Grun, C. Moore, T. Jones; Plasma Physics Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375; C. Manka; Research Support Instruments; D. Tam; Naval

Radiative shock instabilities from the laboratory to Cassiopeia A

J. E. LAWLER and E. A. Den Hartog,; (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); C. Sneden; (Dept. of Astronomy and McDonald Observatory, Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Improved radiative lifetimes, branching fractions and atomic transition probabilities for Nd II

J. K. LEPSON; University of Califonia, Berkeley; P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, D. Thorn; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; E. Behar, S. M. Kahn; Columbia University

Spectral catalogue of intermediate charge states of high-Z ions for astrophysical diagnostics in the euv and soft X-ray

Steven T. MANSON; Georgia State University; Himadri S. Chakraborty; Kansas State University; Pranawa C. Deshmukh; Indian Institute of Technology-Madras

Interchannel coupling in the photoionization of ions

A.L. MATTIODA, D.M. Hudgins, C.W. Bauschlicher, Jr., and L.J. Allamandola; (NASA Ames Research Center)

Infrared spectroscopy of matrix-isolated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and associated ions. PAHs incorporating pyrene and peropyrene structures

A.L. MATTIODA, D.M. Hudgins, C.W. Bauschlicher and L.J. Allamandola; (NASA Ames Research Center)

Infrared spectra of matrix-isolated heterocyclic aromatic compounds and their ions

B. J. MCCALL; Department of Astronomy & Department of Chemistry, University of California; at Berkeley; B. L. Rachford, T. P. Snow; Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder; P. Sonnentrucker, S. Friedman; Department o

Early results from the APO diffuse interstellar band survey

M.H. MOORE; (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center); R.L. Hudson; (Eckerd College and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center); R.F. Ferrante; (US Naval Academy and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Synthesis of HCN and HNC in ion-irradiated N2-rich ices

Cheuk-Yiu NG; (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis)

Determination of accurate energetic database for combustion, atmospheric, and interstellar chemistry

Joseph A NUTH III1, Frans J. M. Rietmeijer2 and Hugh G. M. Hill3; (1. Astrochemistry Branch, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center); (2. Inst. of Meteoritics, Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque); (3. NAS/NRC Resident Research Ass

Condensation processes in astrophysical environments: The composition and structure of cometary grains

J. C. PEARSON; (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

High-resolution photoionization and photoelectron studies: Laboratory astrophysics needs of the Herschel Space Observatory

J.C. PEARSON, H. M. Pickett, B. J. Drouin, P. Chin, and E. A. Cohen; (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

Microwave, millimeter, submillimeter and far infrared spectral databases

Y. PENDLETON and Lou Allamandola (NASA Ames Research Center)

The organic refractory material in the diffuse interstellar medium: Mid-IR spectroscopic constraints

Ruth C. PETERSON; Astrophysical Advances and UCO/Lick

Empirical near-UV line parameters from hubble spectroscopy

Juliet C. PICKERING Anne P. Thorne and Richard Blackwell-Whitehead; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK

Laboratory astrophysics and high resolution atomic spectroscopy with the Imperial College fourier transform spectrometer

PIZAGNO, J. and Sellgren, K. (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University); Uchida, K. I. (RS Science Center, Center for Radiophysics Space Research, Cornell University); Werner, M. W. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

The energetics of the 12 micron IRAS band

F. S. PORTER, K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, R. L. Kelley, C. K. Stahle, and W. Tillotson; NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M. May, and D. Thorn; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; S.

Laboratory astrophysics with a high-resolution XRS X-ray microcalorimeter

J. READER, W. L. Wiese, W. C. Martin, A. Musgrove, and J. R. Fuhr; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, U.S.A.

NIST databases on atomic spectra

T.L. ROUSH 1 and J.B. Dalton1,2; 1. NASA Ames Research Center; 2. NRC, Resident Research Associate

Cryogenic Titan tholins

Richard RUITERKAMP; Leiden Observatory, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Thomas Halasinski, Farid Salama; NASA-Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000,; USA; Bernard Foing; ESA Space Science, ESTEC/SCI-SR

Laboratory calibration studies in support of an ISS exposure experiment and comparison to the diffuse interstellar bands

Scott A. SANDFORD; NASA-Ames Research Center, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA

The Astrobiology Explorer (ABE) midex mission concept: using infrared spectroscopy to identify organic molecules in space

D. W. SAVIN; Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; G. Gwinner, D. Schwalm, and A. Wolf; Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany; A. Muller and S. Schippers; Institut fur Kernphysik, Strahlenzentrum der

Ion storage ring measurements of low temperature dielectronic recombination rate coefficients for modeling X-ray photoionized cosmic plasmas

Daniel Wolf SAVIN; Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027

Rate coefficients For D(1s) + H^+ <--> D^+ + H (1s) charge transfer and some astrophysical implications

Richard J. SAYKALLY; Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 USA

Molecular carbon in the galaxy: New laboratory and observational studies

Brian SHARPEE, Jack Baldwin; Michigan State University; Robert Williams; Space Telescope Science Institute; Peter van Hoof; Queen's University Belfast

EMILI - An aid in emission line identification in emission-line regions

T. G. SLANGER, P. C. Cosby, and D. L. Huestis; Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

The atmosphere as laboratory: Aeronomy by astronomy

Gregory P. SMITH and David L. Huestis; Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Low-temperature hydrocarbon photochemistry: CH3 + CH3 recombination in giant planet atmospheres

Peter L. SMITH; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138; Juliet C. Pickering and Anne P. Thorne; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK

New atomic data for doubly ionized 3d transition group elements by high resolution fourier transform spectroscopy

Peter L. SMITH, J. Rufus, K. Yoshino, and W. H. Parkinson; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Glenn Stark; Physics Department, Wellesley College; J. C. Pickering and A. P. Thorne; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London

UV photoabsorption cross sections of CO, N2, AND SO2 [1mm] for studies of the ISM and planetary atmospheres

Steven J. SMITH and A. Chutjian; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91109 USA

Measurements of lifetimes and F-values in highly-charged positive ions

T.L. SMITH, G.C. Clayton; Louisiana State University; K.D. Gordon, C. Engelbracht; Steward Observatory

The newly discovered NIR features in NGC 7023 and other reflection nebulae

Christopher SNEDEN; Department of Astronomy McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin; James E. Lawler; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison; John J. Cowan; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma; Harrie

Atomic data and stellar chemical compositions [invited talk]
Ted SNOW, CASA Univ of Colorado Report Talk: HST Science Legacy

P. C. STANCIL and J. G. Wang; Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Simulational Physics; D. R. Schultz and M. J. Rakovic; Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; B. Zygelman; Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Charge transfer calculations and database for astrophysics

Hiroshi SUTO (Subaru Telescope, JAPAN), Takeshi Fukui, Satoshi Ohara (Japan Fine Ceramic Center, JAPAN), and Chiyoe Koike(Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, JAPAN)

Fine particle production by spray pyrolysis method

Jan SZCZEPANSKI John Banisaukas, So Hirata, and Martin Vala; (Department of Chemistry and Center for Chemical Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

Pre-resonance raman spectrum of the C13H9 fluorene-like radical

E. TAKACS; MIT, 77 Mass Ave, 26-239, Cambridge MA 02139-4307; and University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Bem ter 18/A, H-4026, Hungary.; J. M. Laming; US Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7674L, Washington DC 20375; J. D. Gillapsy, J. V. Porto, I. Kink; National

Spectroscopy of trapped ions with a microcalorimeter on the NIST electron beam ion trap

Margaret TOLBERT, Melissa Trainer, Dan Curtis and Owen Toon; (University of Colorado); and Chris McKay; (NASA Ames Research Center); and Doug Worsnop; (Aerodyne Research, Inc.)

Laboratory studies of early Earth tholin particles

Gianfranco VIDALI, J.E.Roser; Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.13244; G.Manico', V.Pirronello; Universita' di Catania, Catania, Italy

Investigations of formation of molecular hydrogen on dust grain analogues

P. F. WECK, P. C. Stancil A. Schweitzer, and P. H. Hauschildt; Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia; K. Kirby; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Y. Yamaguchi and W. Allen; Center for

Molecular line and continuum opacities for modeling of extrasolar giant planet and cool stellar atmospheres

L. M. WIESE G. A. Bonvallet, and J. E. Lawler (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

Laboratory measurement of a Fe II fuse band oscillator strength

E.H. WISHNOW; (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); H.P. Gush, H. Halpern, and I. Ozier; (University of British Columbia)

Submillimeter spectra of low temperature gases and gas mixtures

J. P. WRUBEL, N. I. Agladze, and A. J. Sievers; LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Impurity-induced mm-wave absorption in amorphous ice