Infrared molecular emissions from comets

Details Infrared molecular emissions from comets Infrared molecular emissions from comets

Jul 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983stin...8330344w&link_type=abstract

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Comets, Emission Spectra, Infrared Radiation, Molecular Spectra, Detection, Line Spectra, Water

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The possibility of detecting IR molecular line emission from cometary parent molecules is explored. Due to the non-LTE conditions in the inner coma and the large amount of near IR solar flux, IR fluorescence will be a significant source of cometary emission and, in fact, will dominate the grain radiation in a sufficiently high resolution instrument. The detection of this line emission will be difficult due to absorption in the terrestrial atmosphere, but it appears possible to measure cometary H2O emission from airplane altitudes. As IR molecular line emission represents one of the few promising methods of detecting cometary parent molecules directly, further research on this problem should be vigorously pursued.

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