Will Robson Monteiro Rocha
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- Name
- Dr. W.R. Monteiro Rocha
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- 071 5272727
- monteirorocha@strw.leidenuniv.nl

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- Chen Y., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Dishoeck E.F. van, Gelder M.L. van, Nazari P., Slavicinska K., Francis L.K.S., Tabone B., Ressler M.E., Klaassen P.D., Beuther H., Boogert A.C.A., Gieser C., Kavanagh P.J., Perotti G., Le Gouellec V.J.M., Majumdar L., Güdel M. & Henning T. (2024), JOYS+: The link between the ice and gas of complex organic molecules: comparing JWST and ALMA data of two low-mass protostars, Astronomy and Astrophysics 690: A205.
- Chen Y., Rocha W., Dishoeck E.F. van, Nazari P., Gelder M. van, Francis L., Slavicinska K., Ressler M. & Tabone B. (2024), Tracing complex organic molecules (COMs) from ice to gas with JWST and ALMA, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting. EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 1 July 2024 - 5 July 2024. Padova, Italy 1013.
- Rubinstein A.E., Evans N.J., Tyagi H., Narang M., Nazari P., Gutermuth R., Federman S., Manoj P., Green J.D., Watson D.M., Megeath S.T., Rocha W.R.M., Brunken N.G.C., Slavicinska K., Dishoeck E.F. van, Beuther H., Bourke T.L., Caratti o Garatti A., Hartmann L., Klaassen P., Linz H., Looney L.W., Muzerolle J., Stanke T., Tobin J.J., Wolk S.J. & Yang Y.-L. (2024), IPA: class 0 protostars viewed in CO emission using JWST, The Astrophysical Journal 974(1): 112.
- Nazari P., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Rubinstein A.E., Slavicinska K., Gomes Rachid M., Dishoeck E.F. van, Megeath S.T., Gutermuth R., Tyagi H., Brunken N.G.C., Narang M., Manoj P., Watson D.M., Evans N.J., Federman S., Muzerolle Page J., Anglada G., Beuther H., Klaassen P., Looney L.W., Osorio M., Stanke T. & Yang Y.-L. (2024), Hunting for complex cyanides in protostellar ices with the JWST. A tentative detection of CH3CN and C2H5CN, Astronomy & Astrophysics 686: A71.
- Narang M., Manoj P., Tyagi H., Watson D.M., Megeath S.T., Federman S., Rubinstein A.E., Gutermuth R., Caratti o Garatti A., Beuther H., Bourke T.L., Dishoeck E.F. van, Evans N.J., Anglada G., Osorio M., Stanke T., Muzerolle J., Looney L.W., Yang Y.-L., Klaassen P., Karnath N., Atnagulov P., Brunken N.G.C., Fischer W.J., Furlan E., Green J., Habel N., Hartmann L., Linz H., Nazari P., Pokhrel R., Rahatgaonkar R., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Sheehan P., Slavicinska K., Stutz A.M., Tobin J.J., Tychoniec L. & Wolk S. (2024), Discovery of a collimated jet from the low-luminosity protostar IRAS 16253‑2429 in a quiescent accretion phase with the JWST, Astrophysical Journal Letters 962(1): L16.
- Francis L.K.S., Gelder M.L. van, Dishoeck E.F. van, Gieser C., Beuther H., Tychoniec L., Perotti G., Caratti o Garatti A., Kavanagh P.J., Ray T., Klaassen P., Justtanont K., Linnartz H.V.J., Rocha W.R.M., Slavicinska K., Güdel M., Henning T., Lagage P.-O. & Östlin G. (2024), JOYS: MIRI/MRS spectroscopy of gas-phase molecules from the high-mass star-forming region IRAS 23385+6053, Astronomy and Astrophysics 683: A249.
- Gelder M.L. van, Francis L.K.S., Dishoeck E.F. van, Tychoniec L., Ray T.P., Beuther H., Caratti o Garatti A., Chen Y., Devaraj R., Gieser C., Justtanont K., Kavanagh P.J., Nazari P., Reyes S., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Slavicinska K., Güdel M., Henning T., Lagage P.-O. & Wright G. (2024), JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS): overview of gaseous molecular emission and absorption in low-mass protostars, Astronomy and Astrophysics 692: A197.
- Gelder M.L. van, Ressler M.E., Dishoeck E.F. van, Nazari P., Tabone B., Black J.H., Tychoniec Ł., Francis L.K.S., Barsony M., Beuther H., Caratti o Garatti A., Chen Y., Gieser C., le Gouellec V.J.M., Kavanagh P.J., Klaassen P.D., Lew B.W.P., Linnartz H.V.J., Majumdar L., Perotti G. & Monteiro Rocha W.R. (2024), JOYS+: Mid-infrared detection of gas-phase SO2 emission in a low-mass protostar: The case of NGC 1333 IRAS 2A: Hot core or accretion shock?, Astronomy and Astrophysics 682: A78.
- Rocha W., Dishoeck E. van, McClure M., Gelder M. van, Francis L., Brunken N., Slavicinska K., Tychoniec Ł. & Sturm A. (2024), Where it all begins: protostars contain the icy ingredients crucial for the genesis of habitable planets, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting. EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 1 July 2024 - 5 July 2024. Padova, Italy.
- Rocha W.R.M., Dishoeck E.F. van, Ressler M.E., Gelder M.L. van, Slavicinska K., Brunken N.G.C., Linnartz H., Ray T.P., Beuther H., Caratti o Garatti A., Geers V., Kavanagh P.J., Klaassen P.D., Justtanont K., Chen Y., Francis L., Gieser C., Perotti G., Tychoniec Ł., Barsony M., Majumdar L., le Gouellec V.J.M., Chu L.E.U., Lew B.W.P., Henning T. & Wright G. (2024), JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detecting icy complex organic molecules and ions. I. CH4, SO2, HCOO−, OCN−, H2CO, HCOOH, CH3CH2OH, CH3CHO, CH3OCHO, and CH3COOH, Astronomy & Astrophysics 683: A124.
- Rocha W.R.M., Rachid M.G., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K., Slavicinska K. & Linnartz H. (2024), SPECFY - an important tool of the Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry in the era of the James Webb Space Telescope, IAU Symposium. IAU Symposium 371 9 August 2022 - 11 August 2022 no. 371. Busan, South Korea: Cambridge University Press. 67-71.
- Dubernet M.L., Berriman G.B., Boersma C., Jäger C., Rengel M., Rocha W.R.M., Salama F. & Zwölf C.M. (2024), Laboratory astrophysics data working group IAU 2022 GA session, IAU Symposium. IAU Symposium 371 9 August 2022 - 11 August 2022 no. 371. Busan, South Korea: Cambridge University Press. 43-48.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., W.R.M., Gomes Rachid M., McClure M.K., He J. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2024), Water ice: temperature-dependent refractive indexes and their astrophysical implications, Astronomy & Astrophysics 681: A9.
- Fan H., Rocha C.M.R., Cordiner M., Linnartz H.V.J., Cox N.L.J., Farhang A., Smoker J., Roueff E., Ehrenfreund P., Salama F., Foing B.H., Lallement R., MacIsaac H., Kulik K., Sarre P., Loon J.T. van & Cami J. (2024), The EDIBLES survey. VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds, Astronomy & Astrophysics 681: A6.
- Slavicinska K., Dishoeck E.F. van, Tychoniec Ł., Nazari P., Rubinstein A.E., Gutermuth R., Tyagi H., Chen Y., Brunken N.G.C., Rocha W.R.M., Manoj P., Narang M., Megeath S.T., Yang Y.-L., Looney L.W., Tobin J.J., Beuther H., Bourke T.L., Linnartz H., Federman S., Watson D.M. & Linz H. (2024), JWST detections of amorphous and crystalline HDO ice toward massive protostars, Astronomy & Astrophysics 688: A29.
- Bergner J.B., Sturm J.A., Piacentino E.L., McClure M.K., Öberg K.I., Boogert A.C.A., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Fraser H.J., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Lis D.C., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Noble J.A., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rocha W.R. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2024), JWST ice band profiles reveal mixed ice compositions in the HH 48 NE disk, The Astrophysical Journal 975(2): 166.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Cordiner M.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Lis D.C., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Noble J.A., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Urso R.G. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2024), A JWST/MIRI analysis of the ice distribution and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission in the protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE, Astronomy & Astrophysics 689: A92.
- Tychoniec Ł., Gelder M.L. van, Dishoeck E.F. van, Francis L., Rocha W.R.M., Caratti o Garatti A., Beuther H., Gieser C., Justtanont K., Linnartz H., Le Gouellec V.J.M., Perotti G., Devaraj R., Tabone B., Ray T.P., Brunken N.G.C., Chen Y., Kavanagh P.J., Klaassen P., Slavicinska K., Güdel M. & Östlin G. (2024), JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). Linked accretion and ejection in a Class I protobinary system, Astronomy & Astrophysics 687: A36.
- Noble J.A., Fraser H.J., Smith Z.L., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Cuppen H.M., Dickinson H.J., Dulieu F., Egami E., Erkal J., Giuliano B.M., Husquinet B., Lamberts A.L.M., Maté B., McClure M.K., Palumbo M.E., Shimonishi T., Sun F., Bergner J.B., Brown W.A., Caselli P., Congiu E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Herrero V.J., Ioppolo S., Jimenez-Serra I., Linnartz H.V.J., Melnick G.J., McGuire B.A., Oberg K.I., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rocha W.R.M. & Urso R.G. (2024), Detection of the elusive dangling OH ice features at 2.7 μm in Chamaeleon I with JWST NIRCam, Nature Astronomy 8: 1169-1180.
- Dartois E., Noble J.A., Caselli P., Fraser H.J., Jiménez-Serra I., Maté B., McClure M.K., Melnick G.J., Pendleton Y.J., Shimonishi T., Smith Z.L., Sturm J.A., Taillard A., Wakelam V., Boogert A.C.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Erkal J., Harsono D., Herrero V.J., Ioppolo S., Linnartz H.V.J., McGuire B.A., Perotti G., Qasim D. & Rocha W.R.M. (2024), Spectroscopic sizing of interstellar icy grains with JWST, Nature Astronomy 8: 359-367.
- Brunken N.G.C., Dishoeck E.F. van, Slavicinska K., le Gouellec V.J.M., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Francis L.K.S., Tychoniec L., Gelder M.L. van, Navarro M.G., Boogert A.C.A., Kavanagh P.J., Nazari P., Greene T., Ressler M.E. & Majumdar L. (2024), JOYS+ study of solid-state 12C/13C isotope ratios in protostellar envelopes: observations of CO and CO2 ice with the James Webb Space Telescope, Astronomy and Astrophysics 692: A163.
- Federman S.A., Megeath S.T., Rubinstein A.E., Gutermuth R., Narang M., Tyagi H., Manoj P., Anglada G., Atnagulov P., Beuther H., Bourke T.L., Brunken N.G.C., Caratti o Garatti A., Evans N.J., Fischer W.J., Furlan E., Green J.D., Habel N., Hartmann L., Karnath N., Klaassen P., Linz H., Looney L.W., Osorio M., Muzerolle Page J., Nazari P., Pokhrel R., Rahatgaonkar R., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Sheehan P., Slavicinska K., Stanke T., Stutz A.M., Tobin J.J., Tychoniec L., Dishoeck E.F. van, Watson D.M., Wolk S. & Yang Y.-L. (2024), Investigating protostellar accretion-driven outflows across the mass spectrum: JWST NIRSpec Integral Field Unit 3-5 μm spectral mapping of five young protostars, The Astrophysical Journal 966(1): 41.
- Brunken N.G.C., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Dishoeck E.F. van, Gutermuth R., Tyagi H., Slavicinska K., Nazari P., Megeath S.T., Evans N.J., Narang M., Manoj P., Rubinstein A.E., Watson D.M., Looney L.W., Linnartz H.V.J., Caratti o Garatti A., Beuther H., Linz H., Klaassen P., Poteet C.A., Federman S., Anglada G., Atnagulov P., Bourke T.L., Fischer W.J., Furlan E., Green J., Habel N., Hartmann L., Karnath N., Osorio M., Muzerolle Page J., Pokhrel R., Rahatgaonkar R., Sheehan P., Stanke T., Stutz A.M., Tobin J.J., Tychoniec L., Wolk S. & Yang Y.-L. (2024), JWST observations of 13CO2 ice. Tracing the chemical environment and thermal history of ices in protostellar envelopes, Astronomy and Astrophysics 685: A27.
- Beuther H., Dishoeck E.F. van, Tychoniec L., Gieser C., Kavanagh P.J., Perotti G., Gelder M.L. van, Klaassen P., Caratti o Garatti A., Francis L., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Slavicinska K., Ray T., Justtanont K., Linnartz H.V.J., Waelkens C., Colina L., Greve T., Güdel M., Henning T., Lagage P.-O., Vandenbussche B., Östlin G. & Wright G. (2023), JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS): outflows and accretion in the high-mass star-forming region IRAS 23385+6053, Astronomy and Astrophysics 673: A121.
- Kosmaczewski E., Stawarz Ł., Cheung C.C., Bamba A., Karska A. & Monteiro Rocha W.R. (2023), Multiwavelength study of dark globule DC 314.8-5.1: point-source identification and diffuse emission characterization, The Astrophysical Journal 959(1): 37.
- Perotti G., Jørgensen J.K., Rocha W.R.M., Plunkett A., Artur de la Villarmois E., Kristensen L.E., Sewiło M., Bjerkeli P., Fraser H.J. & Charnley S.B. (2023), Linking ice and gas in the Coronet cluster in Corona Australis, Astronomy and Astrophysics 678: A78.
- 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.
- Pilling S., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Carvalho G.A. & Abreu H.A. de (2023), Mapping the evolution of pure CO2 ices irradiated by ions, UV, and electrons using the upgraded PROCODA code (employing an effective rate constant ordering by thermochemistry data), Advances in Space Research 71(12): 5466-5492.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Woitke P., Pilling S., Thi W.-F., Jørgensen J.K., Kristensen L.E., Perotti G. & Kamp I. (2023), Simulation of CH3OH ice UV photolysis under laboratory conditions, Astronomy and Astrophysics 673: A70.
- 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.
- Slavicinska K., Rachid M.G., Rocha W.R.M., Chuang K., Dishoeck E.F. van & Linnartz H.V.J. (2023), The hunt for formamide in interstellar ices: a toolkit of laboratory infrared spectra in astronomically relevant ice mixtures and comparisons to ISO, Spitzer, and JWST observations, Astronomy and Astrophysics 677: A13.
- 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.
- 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., 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.
- Itrich D., Karska A., Sewiło M., Kristensen L.E., Herczeg G.J., Ramsay S., Fischer W.J., Tabone B.X.J.A., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Koprowski M., Lê N. & Deka-Szymankiewicz B. (2023), Investigating the impact of metallicity on star formation in the outer galaxy: I. VLT/KMOS survey of young stellar objects in Canis Major, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 267(2): 46.
- He J., Diamant S.J.M., Wang S., Yu H., Rocha W.R., Gomes Rachid M. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2022), Refractive index and extinction coefficient of vapor-deposited water ice in the UV-vis range, The Astrophysical Journal 925(2): 179.
- Gomes Rachid M., Monteiro Rocha W.R. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2022), Infrared spectra of complex organic molecules in astronomically relevant ice mixtures. V. : Methyl cyanide (acetonitrile), Astronomy and Astrophysics 665: A89.
- 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 and Astrophysics 668: A63.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Linnartz H.V.J. & Varandas A.J.C. (2022), Reconciling spectroscopy with dynamics in global potential energy surfaces: the case of the astrophysically relevant SiC2, The Journal of Chemical Physics 157(10): 104301.
- Kosmaczewski E., Stawarz Ł., Rocha W.R.M., Shenoy S.S. & Karska A. (2022), Spectroscopic diagnostics of the mid-infrared features of the dark globule DC 314.8-5.1 with the Spitzer Space Telescope, The Astrophysical Journal 934(2): 94.
- Pilling S., Carvalho G.A. & Rocha W.R.M. (2022), Chemical evolution of CO2 ices under processing by ionizing radiation: characterization of nonobserved species and chemical equilibrium phase with the employment of PROCODA Code, The Astrophysical Journal 925(2): 147.
- Bossa J.B., Maté B., Fransen C., Cazaux S., Pilling S., Robson Monteiro Rocha W., Ortigoso J. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2015), Porosity and Band-strength Measurements of Multi-phase Composite Ices, The Astrophysical Journal 814(1): 47.