Experimental indication of a naphthalene-base molecular aggregate for the carrier of the 2175 Å interstellar extinction feature

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 487, Issue 2 PART I, 1997, Pages 976-982

  Beegle, Luther W ^a   Wdowiak, Thomas J ^a   Robinson, Michael S ^a,b   Cronin, John R ^c   McGehee, Michael D ^c   Clemett, Simon J ^d   Gillette, Seb ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Infrared: ISM: lines and bands; ISM: molecules methods: laboratory; Molecular processes; Ultraviolet: ISM

Indexed keywords

NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; GAS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASES; NAPHTHALENES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 0031243968     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304658     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Allamandola, L. J., Tielens, A. G. G. M., & Barker, J. R. 1989, ApJS, 71, 733
2. Beegle, L. W. 1997, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
3. Bernstein, M. P., Sanford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. 1996, ApJ, 472, L127
4. Blanco, A., Fonti, S., Muci, A. M., & Orofino, V. 1996, ApJ, 472, 419
5. Bless, R. C., & Savage, B. D. 1972, ApJ, 171, 293
6. Draine, B. T. 1989, in IAU Symp. 135, Interstellar Dust, ed. L. J. Allamandola & A. G. G. M. Tielens (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 313
7. Fitzpatrick, E. L., & Massa, D. 1986, ApJ, 307, 286
8. Geballe, T. R., & van der Veen, W. E. C. J. 1990, A&A, 235, L9
9. Huffman, D. R. 1989, in IAU Symp. 135, Interstellar Dust, ed. L. J. Allamandola & A. G. G. M. Tielens (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 329
10. Joblin, C., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Allamandola, L. J., & Geballe, T. R. 1996, ApJ, 458, 610
11. Keller, R. 1987, in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Astrophysics, ed. A. Leger, L. d'Hendecourt & N. Boccara (Dordrecht: Reidel), 387
12. Lee, W., & Wdowiak, T. J. 1993, ApJ, 410, L127
13. Mathis, J. S. 1990, ARA&A, 28, 37
14. _. 1994, ApJ, 422, 176
15. Mennella, V., Colangeli, L., Palumbo, P., Rotundi, A., Schutte, W., & Bussoletti, E. 1996, ApJ, 464, L191
16. Meyer, D. M., & Savage, B. D. 1981, ApJ, 248, 545
17. Miller, L. E, & Mann, D. J. 1951, J. Am. Soc., 73, 45
18. Murrell, J. N. 1963, The Theory of Electronic Spectra of Organic Molecules (New York: Wiley), 93
19. Nandy, K., Thompson, G. I., Jamar, C., Monfils, A., & Wilson, R. 1975, A&A, 44, 195
20. Nandy, K., Thompson, G. L, Jamar, C., Monfils, A., & Wilson, R. 1976, A&A, 51, 63
21. Sakata, A., Nakagawa, N., Iguchi, T., Isobe, S., Morimoto, M, Hoyle, F., & Wickramasinghe, N. C. 1977, Nature, 266, 241
22. Sakata, A. Wada, S, Okutsu, Y., Shintani, H., & Nakada, Y., 1983, Nature, 301, 493
23. Sakata, A, Wada, S., Tokunaga, A. T., Narisawa, T., Nakagawa, H, & Ono, H.1994, ApJ, 430, 311
24. Salama, F., & Allamandola, L. J. 1992, Nature, 358, 42
25. Sanford, S. A., Pendleton, Y. J., & Allamandola, L. J. 1995, ApJ, 440, 697
26. Savage, B. D. 1975, ApJ, 199, 92
27. Schlemmer, S., Cook, D. J., Harrison, J. A., Wurfel, B., Chapman, W, & Saykally, R. J. 1994, Science, 265, 1686
28. Seab, C. G, Snow, T. P., & Joseph, C. L. 1981, ApJ, 246, 788
29. Stecher, T. P. 1965, ApJ, 142, 1683
30. Stecher, T. P., & Donn, B. 1965, ApJ, 142, 1681
31. Wdowiak, T. J. 1980, ApJ, 241, L55
32. _. 1981, Nature, 293, 724
33. Wdowiak, T. J., Beegle, L. W., Robinson, M. S., & Lee, W. 1995a, Planet. Space Sei., 43, 1429
34. _. 1995b, Planet. Space Sei., 43, 1429
35. Wdowiak, T. J., Donn, B., Nuth, J. A., Chappelle, E., & Moore, M. N. 1989, ApJ, 336, 838
36. Whittet, D. C. B. 1992, Dust in the Galactic Environment (Bristol: Inst, of Physics Pub.)
37. Witt, A. N., Bohlin, R. C., & Stecher, T. P. 1984, ApJ, 279, 698
38. Wu, C. G, Gilra, D. P., & van Duinen, R. J. 1980, ApJ, 241, 173