Observations of interstellar zinc

Details Observations of interstellar zinc Observations of interstellar zinc

Aug 1981

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Final Technical Report, 1 Jun. 1979 - 31 Aug. 1981 California Univ., Los Angeles. Dept. of Astronomy.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Interstellar Gas, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Zinc, Cosmology, Deuterium, Interstellar Chemistry, Iue, Line Spectra, Nuclear Fusion

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The International Ultraviolet Explorer observations of interstellar zinc toward 10 stars are examined. It is found that zinc is at most only slightly depleted in the interstellar medium; its abundance may serve as a tracer of the true metallicity in the gas. The local interstellar medium has abundances that apparently are homogeneous to within a factor of two, when integrated over paths of about 500 pc, and this result is important for understanding the history of nucleosynthesis in the solar neighborhood. The intrinsic errors in detecting weak interstellar lines are analyzed and suggestions are made as to how this error limit may be lowered to 5 mA per target observation.

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