Review of the absorption spectra of solid O2 and N2 as they relate to contamination of a cooled infrared telescope

Details Review of the absorption spectra of solid O2 and N2 as they relate to contamination of a cooled infrared telescope Review of the absorption spectra of solid O2 and N2 as they relate to contamination of a cooled infrared telescope

Sep 1977

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Absorption Spectra, Infrared Telescopes, Oxygen Atoms, Solid Nitrogen, Solidified Gases, Space Infrared Telescope Facility, Spacecraft Contamination, Surface Cooling, Cryogenics, Crystallography, Diatomic Molecules, Solid Phases, Space Shuttles, Spaceborne Astronomy

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During contamination studies for the liquid helium cooled shuttle infrared telescope facility, a literature search was conducted to determine the absorption spectra of the solid state of homonuclear molecules of O2 and N2, and ascertain what laboratory measurements of the solid have been made in the infrared. With the inclusion of one unpublished spectrum, the absorption spectrum of the solid oxygen molecule has been thoroughly studied from visible to millimeter wavelengths. Only two lines appear in the solid that do not also appear in the gas or liquid. A similar result is implied for the solid nitrogen molecule because it also is homonuclear. The observed infrared absorption lines result from lattice modes of the alpha phase of the solid, and disappear at the warmer temperatures of the beta, gamma, and liquid phases. They are not observed from polycrystalline forms of O2, while strong scattering is. Scattering, rather than absorption, is considered to be the principal natural contamination problem for cooled infrared telescopes in low earth orbit.

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