The interstellar chemistry of PAH cations

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6664, 1998, Pages 259-260

  Snow, Theodore P ^a   Le Page, Valery ^a   Keheyan, Yeghis ^b   Bierbaum, Veronica M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; HYDROGEN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISSOCIATION; GAS; INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZATION; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

CATIONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GASES; HYDROGEN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

EID: 0032518531     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34602     Document Type: Article

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