The excitation of extended red emission: New constraints on its carrier from bubble space telescope observations of NGC 7023

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 303-315

  Witt, Adolf N ^a   Gordon, Karl D ^b   Vijh, Uma P ^a   Sell, Paul H ^a   Smith, Tracy L ^c   Xie, Rui Hua ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; ISM: individual (NGC 7023); ISM: lines and bands; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Reflection nebulae

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645697660     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498052     Document Type: Article

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