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Graduate Record 2013-2014 
    
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Graduate Record 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

CHEM 5800 - Introduction to Astrochemistry

This interdisciplinary course will introduce advanced undergraduates and graduates to molecules and their chemistry in different sources throughout the universe, especially in clouds of gas and dust lying among the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy and external galaxies. Among the topics to be studied: a brief intro to stars & the interstellar medium, astronomical spectroscopy, & molecular spatial maps.. Prerequisite: Students should have a basic knowledge of chemical kinetics, such as that obtained in an undergraduate course in physical chemistry, and a basic knowledge of either atomic or molecular spectroscopy.



Credits: 3