Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665831

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0665831

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Optical Spectroscopy of Extraterrestrial Molecules. Space is not empty. In the vast regions between stars is a complex soup of molecules. Some of these molecules get incorporated into meteorites and find their way to Earth where they can be identified. Analysis has yielded amino acids; the building blocks of life, but these molecules do not match what we know about the interstellar regions. Interstellar molecules are identified by their spectra, but many features in these spectra are unknown. Could they be caused by the missing molecules? In this project we combine the skills of three spectroscopists, each expert in different areas, in an attempt to make these molecules in the laboratory, measure their spectra and thereby identify these unknown molecules that are in space.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-02-2006

End Date: 16-02-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $323,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Instrumental Methods | Chemical Spectroscopy | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Chemical sciences | Physical sciences |

Other Keywords

Chemical Spectroscopy | Chemical sciences | Other Instrumental Methods | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Physical sciences

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