Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009apj...703l.178m&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 703, Issue 2, pp. L178-L182 (2009).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Infrared: General, Line: Identification, Methods: Laboratory
Scientific paper
The 6.85 μm band observed in the spectra of young stellar objects has been analyzed recently and the most usually accepted assignment to the ν4 bending mode of NH4 + is still under debate. We present here a laboratory study of frozen solutions of NH4 +Cl- in water in an astrophysical range of concentrations and temperatures. The samples are prepared by hyper-quenching of liquid droplets on a cold substrate. The ν4 band of NH4 +, which is very strong in the pure crystal and in the liquid solution at ambient temperature, becomes almost blurred in IR spectra of the frozen solution. The effect of the chlorine anion is expected to be of little relevance in this study. The experimental results are supported by theoretical calculations, which predict a broad range of weak ν4 features for amorphous samples containing different ammonium environments. The present results indicate that the ammonium ion surrounded by water molecules only cannot suffice to explain this spectral feature. This paper contributes with new evidence to the discussion on the assignment of the 6.85 μm band.
Escribano Rafel
Fernández-Torre D.
Gálvez O.
Herrero Víctor J.
Maté Belén
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