Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996a%26a...307l..25e&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.307, p.L25-L28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
62
Ism: Molecules, Ism: Dust, Molecular Data
Scientific paper
From high resolution and high signal to noise spectra, we resolved two or three peak substructures and wing asymmetries in the spectral profiles of three narrow diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). The measured profiles show specific similarities with calculated rotational contours of gas phase molecular spectra, confirming the theory that gas phase molecules are some of the DIB carriers. We measured small changes of the profile substructures with the interstellar line of sight gas temperature. Minor changes in the DIB widths and wings indicate a limited geometry distortion of the molecule in the excited state. By comparison with model calculations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and fullerenes, our observations indicate that the molecular carriers of the DIBs at 5797, 6379 and 6613A have rotational constants smaller than 0.004cm^-1^, and would correspond to large PAH molecules with more than 40 C atoms, chains of ~12-18 C atoms, 30 C rings or C60 fullerene compounds.
Ehrenfreund Pascale
Foing Bernard H.
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