At the end of July 2015, the design of the Stardust Machine has been fulfilled and the various components and parts of the machine are at the ICMM headquarters. Now, the following steps are the assemble of these components and the commissioning of the Stardust Machine. Six hard months are awaiting us!!
Category: NANOCOSMOS
3 NANOCOSMOS invited speakers at the Asilomar Conference (USA)
PhotoDissociation Regions (PDRs) encompass all the interstellar regions where gas is predominantly neutral (e.g. gas that lies in the border outside HII regions) but where Far-UV photons (6 eV < hν <13.6 eV) play an important role on their structure, chemistry, and thermal balance. All of the atomic and most of the molecular gas in our Galaxy is in PDRs.
First models on PDRs were developed 30 years ago. The Asilomar Conference on 30 Years of PhotoDissociation Regions (Asilomar, USA, June 28 – July 3, 2015) will spread our knowledge about the governing processes in these regions and the role they play in the regulation of star-formation processes.
Javier R. Goicoechea (ICMM-CSIC), Asunción Fuente (OAN-IGN) and Olivier Berné (IRAP-CNRS) will talk about the Chemistry of PDRs, the Spitzer & Herschel observations of galactic PDRs, and the role of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in PDRs, respectively.
Stay tuned¡¡¡
NANOCOSMOS “in Focus” at AstroPAH
NANOCOSMOS is highlighted at the “In Focus” section of the Leiden Observatory AstroPAH newsletter (The Netherlands). AstroPAH is focused on research about Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in astronomical environments. NANOCOSMOS will try to shed light on the formation of these species, which is poorly understood. In the article, a brief presentation of the project is presented with the main scientific goals, the Stardust machine (cover image on the left) that will be devoted to produce and analyze in-situ highly-controlled analogs of the dust grains in a versatile ultra-high-vacuum experiment and other experimental set-ups to analyze the molecular content of the nanoparticles that will be produced in the different simulation chambers.
Nick Cox at The Physics of Evolved Stars (POE2015) conference
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The Nanocosmos project was presented at The Physics of Evolved Stars (POE2015) conference by Nanocosmos astronomer Dr. Nick Cox on behalf of the three PIs. This international meeting, held from 8-12 June in Nice, France, was organised to honour Dr. Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de Nice) who passed away in 2014. Presentations at the meeting covered the broad range of scientific interests of Olivier: from AGB stars, Planetary Nebulae, R CrB stars, Novae, Symbiotic systems, and many more. Many presentations at this meeting centred on understanding the formation and presence of dust and molecules in circumstellar environments of both low- and high-mass evolved stellar systems, topics of particular interest to Nanocosmos researchers.
Javier R. Goicoechea awarded for a study of the interstellar clouds
The Société Française d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A) and the Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA) have awarded Javier R. Goicoechea (ICMM-CSIC) and Jérôme Pety (IRAM, France) with the SEA-SF2A 2015 prize for their outstanding achievements in the study of interstellar clouds illuminated by ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, in a French-Spanish scientific research cooperation.
Congrats to both¡¡¡
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