Crystalline Si nanoparticles as carriers of the blue luminescence in the red rectangle nebula

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 621, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages

  Nayfeh, Munir H ^a   Habbal, Shadia Rifai ^b,c   Rao, Satish ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; ISM: Lines and bands; ISM: Molecules; Line: Identification reflection nebulae

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444400296     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429271     Document Type: Article

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