Unusually Weak Diffuse Interstellar Bands toward HD 62542

Details Unusually Weak Diffuse Interstellar Bands toward HD 62542 Unusually Weak Diffuse Interstellar Bands toward HD 62542

2002-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203254v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 4 figures; aastex; accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/340756

As part of an extensive survey of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs), we have obtained optical spectra of the moderately reddened B5V star HD 62542, which is known to have an unusual UV extinction curve of the type usually identified with dark clouds. The typically strongest of the commonly catalogued DIBs covered by the spectra -- those at 5780, 5797, 6270, 6284, and 6614 A -- are essentially absent in this line of sight, in marked contrast with other lines of sight of similar reddening. We compare the HD 62542 line of sight with others exhibiting a range of extinction properties and molecular abundances and interpret the weakness of the DIBs as an extreme case of deficient DIB formation in a dense cloud whose more diffuse outer layers have been stripped away. We comment on the challenges these observations pose for identifying the carriers of the diffuse bands.

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