*UBC astrochem lab group member names shown in blue, I Cooke in green
2025
[33] Anthony J Remijan, P Bryan Changala, Ci Xue, Elsa QH Yuan, Miya Duffy, Haley N Scolati, Christopher N Shingledecker, Thomas H Speak, Ilsa R Cooke, Ryan Loomis, Andrew M Burkhardt, Zachary TP Fried, Gabi Wenzel, Andrew Lipnicky, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire The Missing Link of Sulfur Chemistry in TMC-1: The Detection of c-C3H2S from the GOTHAM Survey ApJ 2025, 982, 191.
[32] WRM Rocha, MK McClure, JA Sturm, TL Beck, ZL Smith, H Dickinson, F Sun, E Egami, ACA Boogert, HJ Fraser, E Dartois, I Jimenez-Serra, JA Noble, J Bergner, P Caselli, SB Charnley, J Chiar, L Chu, I Cooke, N Crouzet, EF van Dishoeck, MN Drozdovskaya, R Garrod, D Harsono, S Ioppolo, M Jin, JK Jorgensen, T Lamberts, DC Lis, GJ Melnick, BA McGuire, KI Oberg, ME Palumbo, YJ Pendleton, G Perotti, D Qasim, B Shope, RG Urso, S Viti, H Linnartz Ice inventory towards the protostar Ced 110 IRS4 observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. Results from the ERS Ice Age program A&A, 2025, 693, A288.
2024
[31] Anthony J Remijan, Zachary TP Fried, Ilsa R Cooke, Gabi Wenzel, Ryan Loomis, Christopher N Shingledecker, Andrew Lipnicky, Ci Xue, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire High Spectral Resolution Observations of Propynal (HCCCHO) toward TMC-1 from the GOTHAM Large Program on the GBT ApJ, 2024, 976, 105.
[30] Brendan Moore, Linshan Zeng, Pavle Djuricanin, Ilsa R Cooke, Kirk W Madison, Takamasa Momose* Significant Chiral Asymmetry Observed in Neutral Amino Acid Ultraviolet Photolysis JACS, 2024 In Press.
[29] Gabi Wenzel*, Thomas H Speak, P Bryan Changala, Reace HJ Willis, Andrew M Burkhardt, Shuo Zhang, Edwin A Bergin, Alex N Byrne, Steven B Charnley, Zachary TP Fried, Harshal Gupta, Eric Herbst, Martin S Holdren, Andrew Lipnicky, Ryan A Loomis, Christopher N Shingledecker, Ci Xue, Anthony J Remijan, Alison E Wendlandt, Michael C McCarthy, Ilsa R Cooke*, Brett A McGuire* Detections of interstellar aromatic nitriles 2-cyanopyrene and 4-cyanopyrene in TMC-1 Nature Astronomy, 2024, In Press.
[28] Gabi Wenzel*, Ilsa R Cooke*, P Bryan Changala, Edwin A Bergin, Shuo Zhang, Andrew M Burkhardt, Alex N Byrne, Steven B Charnley, Martin A Cordiner, Miya Duffy, Zachary TP Fried, Harshal Gupta, Martin S Holdren, Andrew Lipnicky, Ryan A Loomis, Hannah Toru Shay, Christopher N Shingledecker, Mark A Siebert, D Archie Stewart, Reace HJ Willis, Ci Xue, Anthony J Remijan, Alison E Wendlandt, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire. Detection of interstellar 1-cyanopyrene: A four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon Science, 2024, In Press.
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[27] Guillaume, T.; Hays, B. M.; Gupta, D.; Cooke, I. R.; Abdelkader Khedaoui, O; Hearne, T. S.; Drissi, M. and Sims, I. R.* Product-specific reaction kinetics in continuous uniform supersonic flows probed by chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy. J. Chem. Phys. 2024, 160, 204201.
[26] Aditya Dhariwal, Thomas H. Speak, Linshan Zeng, Amirhossein Rashidi, Brendan Moore, Olivier Berné, Anthony J. Remijan, Ilane Schroetter, Brett A. McGuire, Víctor M. Rivilla, Arnaud Belloche, Jes K. Jørgensen, Pavle Djuricanin, Takamasa Momose, Ilsa R. Cooke* On the Origin of Infrared Bands Attributed to Tryptophan in Spitzer Observations of IC 348 ApJL 2024, 968 L9.
[25] Berné, O; Habart, E.; Peeters, E. and the PDRs4All team A far-ultraviolet-driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk Science 2024 383, 6686, 988-992.
2023
[24] Alex N Byrne, Ci Xue, Ilsa R Cooke, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire Astrochemical Modeling of Propargyl Radical Chemistry in TMC-1 ApJ 2023 957, 88.
[23] Y Chen, ML van Gelder, P Nazari, CL Brogan, EF van Dishoeck, H Linnartz, JK Jørgensen, TR Hunter, OH Wilkins, GA Blake, P Caselli, K-J Chuang, C Codella, I Cooke, MN Drozdovskaya, RT Garrod, S Ioppolo, M Jin, BM Kulterer, NFW Ligterink, A Lipnicky, R Loomis, MG Rachid, S Spezzano, BA McGuire CoCCoA: Complex Chemistry in hot Cores with ALMA: Selected oxygen-bearing species Astronomy & Astrophysics 2023, 678, A137.
[22] Ilsa R Cooke*, Ci Xue, P Bryan Changala, Hannah Toru Shay, Alex N Byrne, Qi Yu Tang, Zachary TP Fried, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Ryan A Loomis, Thanja Lamberts, Anthony Remijan, Andrew M Burkhardt, Eric Herbst, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire Detection of Interstellar E-1-cyano-1,3-butadiene in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1 ApJ, 2023 948, 133.
[21] Anthony Remijan, Haley N Scolati, Andrew M Burkhardt, P Bryan Changala, Steven B Charnley, Ilsa R Cooke, Martin A Cordiner, Harshal Gupta, Eric Herbst, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Ryan A Loomis, Christopher N Shingledecker, Mark A Siebert, Ci Xue, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire Astronomical Detection of the Interstellar Anion C10H− toward TMC-1 from the GOTHAM Large Program on the Green Bank Telescope ApJL, 2023 944, L45.
2022
[20] Olivier Berne, Emilie Habart, Els Peeters and the PDRs4All Team PDRs4All: A JWST Early Release Science Program on Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars PASP 134 054301.
[19] Madelyn L Sita, P Bryan Changala, Ci Xue, Andrew M Burkhardt, Christopher N Shingledecker, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Ryan A Loomis, Emmanuel Momjian, Mark A Siebert, Divita Gupta, Eric Herbst, Anthony J Remijan, Michael C McCarthy, Ilsa R Cooke, Brett A McGuire Discovery of Interstellar 2-Cyanoindene (2-C9H7CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1 Astrophysical Journal Letters 2022 938(2), L12.
[18] Collisional excitation of HNC by He found to be stronger than for structural isomer HCN in experiments at the low temperatures of interstellar space Brian M Hays, Divita Gupta, Théo Guillaume, Omar Abdelkader Khedaoui, Ilsa R Cooke, Franck Thibault, François Lique, Ian R Sims Nature Chemistry 2022 14, 811-815.
[17] Timothy J Barnum, Mark A Siebert, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Ryan A Loomis, P Bryan Changala, Steven B Charnley, Madelyn L Sita, Ci Xue, Anthony J Remijan, Andrew M Burkhardt, Brett A McGuire, Ilsa R Cooke* A Search for Heterocycles in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1 J. Phys. Chem. A 2022, 126, 17, 2716–2728.
2021
[16] Andrew M Burkhardt, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, P Bryan Changala, Christopher N Shingledecker, Ilsa R Cooke, Ryan A Loomis, Hongji Wei, Steven B Charnley, Eric Herbst, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire. Discovery of the pure polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon indene (c-C9H8) with GOTHAM observations of TMC-1. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2021, 913, 2, L18.
[15] Brett A McGuire, Ryan A Loomis, Andrew M Burkhardt, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Christopher N Shingledecker, Steven B Charnley, Ilsa R Cooke, Martin A Cordiner, Eric Herbst, Sergei Kalenskii, Mark A Siebert, Eric R Willis, Ci Xue, Anthony J Remijan, Michael C McCarthy. Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering. Science. 2021, 371, 6535, 1265-1269.
[14] Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Ryan A Loomis, Andrew M Burkhardt, Ilsa R Cooke, Ci Xue, Mark A Siebert, Christopher N Shingledecker, Anthony Remijan, Steven B Charnley, Michael C McCarthy, Brett A McGuire. Discovery of interstellar trans-cyanovinylacetylene (HC≡ CCH= CHC≡ N) and vinylcyanoacetylene (H2C= CHC3N) in GOTHAM observations of TMC-1. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2021, 908, 1, L11.
2020
[13] Joseph P Messinger, Divita Gupta, Ilsa R Cooke, Mitchio Okumura, Ian R Sims. Rate constants of the CN+ toluene reaction from 15 to 294 K and interstellar implications. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2020, 124, 39, 7950-7958.
[12] Brian M Hays, Théo Guillaume, Thomas S Hearne, Ilsa R Cooke, Divita Gupta, Omar Abdelkader Khedaoui, Sébastien D Le Picard, Ian R Sims. Design and performance of an E-band chirped pulse spectrometer for kinetics applications: OCS–He pressure broadening Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2020, 250, 107001.
[11] Ilsa R Cooke, Divita Gupta, Joseph P Messinger, Ian R Sims. Benzonitrile as a proxy for benzene in the cold ISM: Low-temperature rate coefficients for CN+ C6H6. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2020, 891, 2, L41.
2019
[10] Divita Gupta, Sidaty Cheikh Sid Ely, Ilsa R Cooke, Théo Guillaume, Omar Abdelkader Khedaoui, Thomas S Hearne, Brian M Hays, Ian R Sims. Low temperature kinetics of the reaction between methanol and the CN radical. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2019, 123, 46, 9995-10003.
[9] Ilsa R Cooke, Ian R Sims. Experimental studies of gas-phase reactivity in relation to complex organic molecules in star-forming regions. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 2019, 3, 7, 1109-1134.
[8] Josh Wimpenny, Matthew E Sanborn, Piers Koefoed, Ilsa R Cooke, Claudine Stirling, Yuri Amelin, Qing-Zhu Yin Reassessing the origin and chronology of the unique achondrite Asuka 881394: Implications for distribution of 26Al in the early Solar System. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2019, 244, 478-501.
2018
[7] Matthew O Clarkson, Claudine H Stirling, Hugh C Jenkyns, Alexander J Dickson, Don Porcelli, Christopher M Moy, Philip AE Pogge von Strandmann, Ilsa R Cooke, Timothy M Lenton. Uranium isotope evidence for two episodes of deoxygenation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. PNAS, 2018, 115, 12, 2918-2923.
[6] Ilsa R Cooke*, Karin I Öberg, Edith C Fayolle, Zoe Peeler, Jennifer B Bergner. CO diffusion and desorption kinetics in CO2 ices. The Astrophysical Journal, 2018, 852, 2, 75.
[5] Clements, A. R., Berk, B., Cooke, I. R. and Garrod, R. T. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of water ice porosity: extrapolations of deposition parameters from the laboratory to interstellar space PCCP, 2018, 20(8), 5553-5568
2016
[4] Ilsa R Cooke*, Edith C Fayolle, Karin I Öberg CO2 infrared phonon modes in interstellar ice mixtures ApJ, 2016 832.
2015
[3] Cooke, I. R.; Laing, C. J.; White, L. V.; Wakes, S. J.; Sowerby, S. J. (2015) Analysis of menisci formed on cones for single field of view parasite egg microscopy Journal of Microscopy, 2015, 257(2), 133-141.
2014
[2] Yuan, C.; Cooke, I. R. and Yates, J. T. (2014) A New Source of CO2 in the Universe: A Photoactivated Eley-Rideal Surface Reaction on Water Ices. ApJL, 2014, 791:L21
[1] White, L.V.; Cooke, I.R.; Wakes, S.J.; Sowerby, S.J. (2013), Quantitative particle microscopy in self-metered fluids. Journal of Microscopy, 2013, 250(3), 159-165.