Inference of a 7.75 eV lower limit in the ultraviolet pumping of interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations with resulting unidentified infrared emissions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 474, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 474-478

  Robinson, Michael S ^a   Beegle, Luther W ^a   Wdowiak, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Infrared: ISM: lines and bands; ISM: molecules molecular data; Ultraviolet: ISM

Indexed keywords

CATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ASTRONOMY; CATIONS; COSMIC DUST; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 0030622378     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303459     Document Type: Article

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