Unidentified cometary emission lines Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Simonia I.A.
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    CDS
Abstract

We discuss the possible nature of unidentified cometary emission lines. We propose a model of the ice particles in cometary halos as a mixture of frozen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and acyclic hydrocarbons. We describe the general properties of frozen hydrocarbon particles (FHPs) and suggest interpreting some of the unidentified cometary emission lines as the photoluminescence of FHPs. We compare the position of quasi-lines in the spectrum of Comet 122P/de Vico with the position of quasi-lines in the photoluminescence spectrum of PAHs that were dissolved in acyclic hydrocarbons at a temperature of 77K and that constituted a polycrystalline solution. We estimated the detectability of FHP photoluminescence in cometary spectra.

Keywords
  1. comets
  2. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2004PAZh...30..946S
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History

2005-05-05T17:34:01Z
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2005-05-05T17:34:01Z
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2005-05-05T17:34:42Z
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