Melissa McClure
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.K. McClure
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8490
- mcclure@strw.leidenuniv.nl
News
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First detailed picture of ice in planet-forming disk -
Tracking the origin and evolution of molecules in space -
The James Webb Telescope takes stunning photos. But what exactly are we looking at? -
Leiden astronomers find building blocks for life in the darkest spots of star-forming cloud -
Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’
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Tracing space ice and the building blocks of life
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Astronomers see star with dust disk that is still being fed
Assistant professor
- Science
- Sterrewacht
- Sterrewacht
- Chu L. & McClure M.K. (2023), JWST ice age first results: observations of ice inventory in a dense molecular cloud, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 224.05.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Law C.J., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Terada H. & Urso R.G. (2023), The edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE: I. Modeling the geometry and stellar parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics 677: A17.
- McClure M.K., Rocha W.R.M., Pontoppidan K.M., Crouzet N., Chu L.E.U., Dartois E., Lamberts T., Noble J.A., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rachid M.G., Smith Z.L., Sun F., Beck T.L., Boogert A.C.A., Brown W.A., Caselli P., Charnley S.B., Cuppen H.M., Dickinson H., Drozdovskaya M.N., Egami E., Erkal J., Fraser H., Garrod R.T., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Jiménez-Serra I., Jin M., Jørgensen J.K., Kristensen L.E., Lis D.C., McCoustra M.R.S., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Ã-berg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Shimonishi T., Sturm J.A., Dishoeck E.F. van & Linnartz H. (2023), An ice age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices, Nature Astronomy 7: 431-443.
- Leisawitz D., Aalto S., Bergner J., Bonato M., bracken C., Eales S., Farrah D., Kennedy G., Kogut A., Lovell J., Matra L., Matsuo T., Matthews B., McClure M.K., Mundy L., Najita J., Pawellek N., Pokorny P., Sanders D., Scoville N., Shivaei I., Spencer L., Su K., Sutter J., Trapman L., Tucker C., Urry C.M., Viti S., Wilner D., Wilson G., Wyatt M., DiPietro D., DiPirro M., Hyde T., Seas A. & Tompkins S. (2023), The space interferometer for cosmic evolution (SPICE) far-IR probe, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 160.04.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Gomes Rachid M., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2023), LIDA - the Leiden ice database for astrochemistry, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. 242nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society 4 June 2023 - 8 June 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55: AAS Publishing. 332.02.
- Qasim D., Raut U., Gimar C., Kammer J., Teolis B., Materese C., McLain H., Aponte J., Glavin D., Dworkin J. & McClure M.K. (2023), Interstellar inheritance of Solar system bodies: laboratory, modeling and JWST observations, AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting abstracts. 55th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences 1 October 2023 - 6 October 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. San Antonio: AAS Publishing. 220.14.
- Boogert A., Ioppolo S., McClure M.K. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2023), Laboratory ice experiments: interpreting and building on JWST early release science observations, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 224.06.
- Sturm J.A., Booth A.S., McClure M.K., Leemker M. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2023), Disentangling the protoplanetary disk gas mass and carbon depletion through combined atomic and molecular tracers, Astronomy and Astrophysics 670: A12.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Bergner J.B., Harsono D., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Öberg K.I., Law C.J., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Terada H. & Urso R.G. (2023), The edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE: II. Modeling ices and silicates, Astronomy and Astrophysics 677: A18.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Beck T.L., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Chiar J.E., Cordiner M.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Linnartz H., Lis D.C., Melnick G.J., McGuire B.A., Noble J.A., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Pontoppidan K.M., Qasim D., Rocha W.R.M., Terada H., Urso R.G. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2023), A JWST inventory of protoplanetary disk ices: the edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE, seen with the Ice Age ERS program, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 679: A138.
- Espaillat C.C., Thanathibodee T., Pittman C.V., Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Calvet N., Walter F.M., Franco-Hernández R. & Muzerolle Page J. (2023), JWST detects neon line variability in a protoplanetary disk, Astrophysical Journal Letters 958(1): L4.
- Bosman A.D., Trapman L., Sturm J.A., Bergin E.A., Booth A.S., Calahan J.K., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K., Miotello A. & Zhang K. (2022), Hydrostatic equilibrium does not solve the C18O flux problem in protoplanetary disks, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 6(9): 176.
- Jin M., Lam K.H., McClure M.K., Terwisscha van Scheltinga J., Li Z.-Y., Boogert A., Herbst E., Davis S.W. & Garrod R.T. (2022), Ice Age: chemodynamical modeling of Cha-MMS1 to predict new solid-phase species for detection with JWST, The Astrophysical Journal 935(2): 133.
- Wagner K., Apai D., Kasper M., McClure M. & Robberto M. (2022), The scorpion planet survey: wide-orbit giant planets around young A-type stars, The Astronomical Journal 163(2): 80.
- Rocha W.R.M., Rachid M.G., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K. & Linnartz H. (2022), LIDA: the Leiden ice database for astrochemistry, Astronomy & Astrophysics 668: A63.
- Cridland A.J., Rosotti G.P., Tabone B.X.J.A., Tychoniec Ł., McClure M.K., Nazari P. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2022), Early planet formation in embedded protostellar disks : setting the stage for the first generation of planetesimals, Astronomy & Astrophysics 662: A90.
- Rich E.A., Monnier J.D., Aarnio A., Laws A.S.E., Setterholm B.R., Wilner D.J., Calvet N., Harries T., Miller C., Davies C.L., Adams F.C., Andrews S.M., Bae J., Espaillat C., Greenbaum A.Z., Hinkley S., Kraus S., Hartmann L., Isella A., McClure M., Oppenheimer R., Pérez L.M. & Zhu Z. (2022), Gemini-LIGHTS: herbig Ae/Be and massive T Tauri protoplanetary disks imaged with gemini planet imager, The Astronomical Journal 164(3): 109.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Harsono D., Facchini S., Long F., Kama M., Bergin E.A. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2022), Tracing pebble drift and trapping using radial carbon depletion profiles in protoplanetary disks, Astronomy & Astrophysics 660: A126.
- McClure M.K., Dominik C. & Kama M. (2021), Probing solid compositions in planetary core formation zones, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. AAS Topical Conference Series meeting, Habitable Worlds 2021 22 February 2021 - 26 February 2021 no. 53. Washington D.C.: AAS Publishing. 1137.
- Kamp I., Honda M., Nomura H., Audard M., Fedele D., Waters L.B.F.M., Aikawa Y., Banzatti A., Bowey J.E., Bradford M., Dominik C., Furuya K., Habart E., Ishihara D., Johnstone D., Kennedy G., Kim M., Kral Q., Lai S.P., Larsson B., McClure M.K., Miotello A., Momose M., Nakagawa T., Naylor D., Nisini B., Notsu S., Onaka T., Pantin E., Podio L., Riviere Marichalar P., Rocha W.R.M., Roelfsema P., Shimonishi T., Tang Y.W., Takami M., Tazaki R., Wolf S., Wyatt M. & Ysard N. (2021), The formation of planetary systems with SPICA, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 38: e055.
- Terwisscha van Scheltinga J., Marcandalli G., McClure M.K., Hogerheijde M.R. & Linnartz H. (2021), Infrared spectra of complex organic molecules in astronomically relevant ice matrices: III. Methyl formate and its tentative solid-state detection, Astronomy & Astrophysics 651: A95.
- Schwarz K.R., Calahan J.K., Zhang K., Alarcón F., Aikawa Y., Andrews S.M., Bae J., Bergin E.A., Booth A.S., Bosman A.D., Cataldi G., Cleeves L.I., Czekala I., Huang J., Ilee J.D., Law C.J., Le Gal R., Liu Y., Long F., Loomis R.A., Macías E., McClure M., Ménard F., Öberg K.I., Teague R., Dishoeck E.F. van, Walsh C. & Wilner D.J. (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales: XX. The Massive Disk around GM Aurigae, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 257(1): 20.
- Ginski C., Facchini S., Huang J., Benisty M., Vaendel D., Stapper L., Dominik C., Bae J., Ménard F., Muro-Arena G., Hogerheijde M.R., McClure M., Holstein R.G. van, Birnstiel T., Boehler Y., Bohn A., Flock M., Mamajek E.E., Manara C.F., Pinilla P., Pinte C. & Ribas Á. (2021), Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): late infall causing disk misalignment and dynamic structures in SU Aur, Astrophysical Journal Letters 908(2): L25.
- Huang J., Andrews S.M., Dullemond C.P., Öberg K.I., Qi C., Zhu Z., Birnstiel T., Carpenter J.M., Isella A., Macías E., McClure M.K., Pérez L.M., Teague R., Wilner D.J. & Zhang S. (2020), A multifrequency ALMA characterization of substructures in the GM Aur protoplanetary disk, The Astrophysical Journal 891(1): 48.
- McClure M.K., Dominik C. & Kama M. (2020), Measuring the atomic composition of planetary building blocks, Astronomy & Astrophysics 642: L15.
- Gabellini M.G.U., Miotello A., Facchini S., Ragusa E., Lodato G., Testi L., Benisty M., Bruderer S., Kurtovic N.T., Andrews S., Carpenter J., Corder S.A., Dipierro G., Ercolano B., Fedele D., Guidi G., Henning T., Isella A., Kwon W., Linz H., McClure M.K., Perez L., Ricci L., Rosotti G., Tazzari M. & Wilner D. (2019), A dust and gas cavity in the disc around CQ Tau revealed by ALMA, Monthly Notices of the RAS (0035-8711) 486(4): 4638-4654.