Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
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Thesis (PHD). UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER , Source DAI-B 59/06, p. 2804, Dec 1998, 186 pages.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
This work covers the design and conduct of two experiments designed to observe molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium. The first experiment was intended to directly observe the ratio between H2 and CO column densities in translucent molecular clouds in order to calibrate CO radio maps and observations of this galaxy and others. H2 cannot be directly observed from the ground under ordinary circumstances, so a novel high resolution (30,000 λΔλ) ultraviolet (UV) spectrograph was designed and built to observe it in absorption in the spectra of a distant star (HD 206267). The instrument operated properly, but the target was not acquired and the sounding rocket's parachute did not deploy, destroying the instrument. The second experiment was to observe H2 absorption towards γ Cassiopeia at very high spectral resolution (-240,000 λΔλ) with a space shuttle experiment called IMAPS. Despite several problems, including a dramatic loss in sensitivity, H2 absorption lines from J=0, 1, 2, and 3 were detected and measured. In conjunction with published atomic line observations, this gas was determined to be from a very small, thermally dominated cloud embedded in a larger H I region. The lack of higher J-state detections preclude a definitive statement concerning the radiation field, although the data point towards limited UV excitation. Future directions for instrument development are then briefly discussed.
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