Publications and Conferences

Thermal Desorption of Water Ice in the Interstellar Medium
    H. J. Fraser, M. P. Collings, M. R. S. McCoustra and D. A. Williams
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in print.

Liquid Water in the Domain of Cubic Ice Ic
    P. Jenniskens, S. Banham, D. F. Blake, and M. R. S. McCoustra,
    Journal of Chemical Physics 1997, 107 1232-1241

Surface Features on interstellar ice
    M. McCoustra and D. A. Williams,
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 1996, 279 L53-L56
 

Work from this experiment has recently been presented at:

• MRSMcC presented a paper entitled The Interaction of Carbon Monoxide with Hydrogen-bonding Molecular Ice Surfaces at the 47th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, San Francisco, USA, 2001.
• MPC presented a seminar entitled Molecular Volcanoes in Astrophysical Ices at the The Northen Universities Annual Chemical Physics Meeting, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, July 2001.
• MPC presented a poster entitled Laboratory Studies of the Chemistry of Ices on Model Interstellar Dust Particles at the 13th Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference, UCL, London 2001.
• HJF presented a poster entitled From Gases to Dust: Ice Chemistry in the Interstellar Environment at the 47th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Boston, USA, 2000.
• HJF gave a seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Ice Chemistry in the Interstellar Environment in the Department of Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Virginia, USA, October 2000.
• MRSMcC gave a seminar entitled From Gas and Dust to ... The Chemistry of Interstellar Grain Surfaces to the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, UCL,

London, October 2000.
• HJF gave a seminar entitled Surface Chemistry and Reactions of Molecular Ices in an 'Interstellar' Environment in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Israel, September 2000.
• HJF gave a seminar  entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium in the Department of Astronomy, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, September 2000.
• HJF gave the van Marum Colloquium entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium, Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, June 2000.
• HJF presented a paper entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium at the 5th NATO Summer School on Astrochemistry, Erice, Sicily, June 2000.
• HJF presented a seminar entitled Laboratory Astrochemistry in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK, April 2000.
• HJF presented a seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium in the Department of Space Sciences, NASA Ames Research Centre, Moffett Field, USA, March 2000.
• HJF presented a seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium in the Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA, March 2000.
• HJF presented a seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium in the Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, March 2000.
• HJF presented a seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium at the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Boston, USA, March 2000.
• HJF presented a paper entitled Laboratory Astrochemistry at the Molecular Cloud and Star Formation Group Progress Meeting, UCL, London, January 2000.
• HJF presented a poster entitled Novel Laboratory-based Studies of Interstellar Ice Grain Mimics at The IAU Symposium 197, 'From Molecular Clouds to Planetary Systems', Sogwipo, South Korea, September 1999 (HF was grateful for a grant from the Royal Society for this purpose).
• HJF presented at seminar entitled From Gases to Dust: Cosmic Chemistry at The Northen Universities Annual Chemical Physics Meeting, School of Chemistry University of Birmingham, UK, July 1999.

 

 
 
 

This project is supported by  the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.

The Surface Astrophysics experiment is part of  Nottingham Astronomy Research Forum
and is based in the Surface Science Group in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham

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