An attempt to detect the C_2 intercombination transition lines in comet Hale-Bopp

Details An attempt to detect the C_2 intercombination transition lines in comet Hale-Bopp An attempt to detect the C_2 intercombination transition lines in comet Hale-Bopp

Jul 1998

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.335, p.765-768 (1998)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Molecular Processes, Comets: General, Comets: Individual: C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), Infrared: Solar System

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In this paper we report the first attempt to detect directly the intercombination transition lines of the C_2 molecule in a comet. Indeed, these transitions play a key role in the C_2 fluorescence process but had never been observed directly so far. We conducted an observational program with the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory 4 m telescope, located in Chile, on September 15(th) and 16(th) , 1997. The spectral range covered was 1.99 - 2.15 microns , in order to detect the emission lines of the X(1Sigma_g ^+-) a(3Pi_u ) (3,0) band, that should be degraded to the blue with a bandhead located at 2.127 microns . This band was chosen because of its expected brightness and its wavelength, corresponding to a good atmospheric transmission and a relatively low sky background. In this paper we present the theoretical calculation allowing to model the expected spectrum and the results obtained with our observational data. These results, unfortunately, cannot allow the detection of the expected emission lines. This is due to a too strong noise, generated by the sky background emission lines, that cannot be totally removed from the spectrum.

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