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Martin Cordiner

Associate Research Professor, Catholic University of America
Verified email at cua.edu
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The composition of comets

AL Cochran, AC Levasseur-Regourd, M Cordiner… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
This paper is the result of the International Cometary Workshop, held in Toulouse, France in
April 2014, where the participants came together to assess our knowledge of comets prior to …

Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering

BA McGuire, RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt, KLK Lee… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Unidentified infrared emission bands are ubiquitous in many astronomical sources. These
bands are widely, if not unanimously, attributed to collective emissions from polycyclic …

Interstellar detection of the highly polar five-membered ring cyanocyclopentadiene

MC McCarthy, KLK Lee, RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Much like six-membered rings, five-membered rings are ubiquitous in organic chemistry,
frequently serving as the building blocks for larger molecules, including many of biochemical …

Formation of benzene in the interstellar medium

BM Jones, F Zhang, RI Kaiser… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related species have been suggested to play a key
role in the astrochemical evolution of the interstellar medium, but the formation mechanism …

No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses

GL Villanueva, M Cordiner, PGJ Irwin, I de Pater… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
MATTERS ARISING NATURE ASTRONOMY (using both CASA and AIPS, done at NRAO).
We investigated including/removing certain baselines; further details of the methods can be …

Early science from GOTHAM: Project overview, methods, and the detection of interstellar propargyl cyanide (HCCCH2CN) in TMC-1

BA McGuire, AM Burkhardt, RA Loomis… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of the GBT Observations of TMC-1: Hunting Aromatic Molecules
Large Program on the Green Bank Telescope. This and a related program were launched to …

An investigation of spectral line stacking techniques and application to the detection of HC11N

RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt, CN Shingledecker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As the inventory of interstellar molecules continues to grow, the gulf between small species,
whose individual rotational lines can be observed with radio telescopes, and large ones …

Interstellar detection of 2-cyanocyclopentadiene, C5H5CN, a second five-membered ring toward TMC-1

KLK Lee, PB Changala, RA Loomis… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Using radio observations with the Green Bank Telescope, evidence has now been found for
a second five-membered ring in the dense cloud Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 (TMC-1). Based …

ALMA detection and astrobiological potential of vinyl cyanide on Titan

MY Palmer, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon, SB Charnley… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Recent simulations have indicated that vinyl cyanide is the best candidate molecule for the
formation of cell membranes/vesicle structures in Titan's hydrocarbon-rich lakes and seas …

Astronomical Detection of the Interstellar Anion C10H− toward TMC-1 from the GOTHAM Large Program on the Green Bank Telescope

A Remijan, HN Scolati, AM Burkhardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Using data from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Observations of TMC-1: Hunting for
Aromatic Molecules (GOTHAM) survey, we report the first astronomical detection of the C 10 …