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Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...18111913l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 181st AAS Meeting, #119.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.743
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Recently the gas-phase (and solid phase) infrared emission spectrum of C60 -buckminsterfullerene has been obtained. Bands attributable to C60 have been identified at 8.6 microns (1169 cm(-1) ), 17.5 microns (570 cm(-1) ), 19.0 microns (527 cm(-1) ) and 7.1 microns (1410 cm(-1) ) (Frum et al. 1991, Chem. Phy. Lett., 176, 504). The low resolution spectrometer (LRS) on IRAS obtained spectra in the 8-22 microns region of brighter sources including about 500 carbon stars. Besides the 11.2 microns SiC dust grain feature, a significant number of the carbon stars show an emission feature between 8- 9 microns typically peaking around 8.6 microns even after correcting for a calibration problem associated with the short wavelength end of the spectra (Volk and Cohen 1989, A.J., 98, 1918). The strength of this emission feature relative to the SiC feature varies significantly from being absent to being much stronger than the SiC feature. Attempts to attribute this feature to PAHs have been unsucessful. We suggest that the 8.6 microns feature may be due to buckminsterfullerene-C60. Attempts to identify the diffuse interstellar bands with C60 have been unsuccessful. We are conducting a search for the 17.5 and 19 microns features associated with buckminsterfullerenes. The strength of the 8.6 microns feature will be correlated with other known abundance parameters.
Clayton Geoff C.
Little-Marenin Irene R.
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