HD , the C 2, C 3 rich sightline
The C 2 Diffuse Interstellar Bands Takeshi Oka Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics And Department of Chemistry The Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago J. A. Thorburn, L. M. Hobbs, T. Oka, D. E. Welty, D. G. York B. J. McCall, S. D. Friedman, P. Sonnentrucker, T. P. Snow ApJ 584, (2003) Carbon in space, Lago di Como, May 23, 2006 T. Oka, Thorburn, J. A., McCall, B. J., S. D. Friedman, L. M. Hobbs, P.Sonnentrucker, D. E. Welty, D. G. York ApJ 582, (2003)
HD , the C 2, C 3 rich sightline
William Huggins, Comet Tebbutt, Alex Douglas C IVR The Douglas effect 1975 HCCCCCN, HCCCCCCCN, HCCCCCCCCCN Origin of diffuse interstellar lines Nature, (1977) Alex Douglas CnCn Proc. R. Soc. London, A. 34, 148 (1881) 4050 Å
J. A. Thorburn, L. M. Hobbs, T. Oka, D. E. Welty, D. G. York, B. J. McCall, S. D. Friedman, P. Sonnentrucker, T. P. Snow Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter 3,800–10,000 Å ; / ~ 38,000 (8 km/s) 53 stars, at 5780 Å Systematic observations of DIBs
HD versus HD E(B-V)= C 2 C 3 N(C 2 ) < 6 cm -2 = 440 cm -2 High discrimination N(CH) = 50 cm -2 = 80 cm -2 Poor discrimination C 2 richC 2 poor
C 2 rich C 2 poor C 2 DIBs Minority Weak and sharp Diffuse Interstellar Bands
W(DIB) versus N(C 2 ) Å r = Å r = C 2 DIBsNon-C 2 DIBs Å r = Å r = 0.416
C 2 DIBs λ(Å)Δλ(Å)r(C 2 )r(C 3 )Note cm cm cm cm cm -1
Doublet Lines
The Doublets cm cm cm cm cm -1 Π Π Π Σ HC 3 HC 5 HC 6 HC 7 HC 8 C 3 - C 7 - A (cm -1 ) λ (Å) Δ T ex 22 K 34 K 26 K Π←Σ 3 10 6 s I s / I w A HD HD HD Or inverted
C 2 -rich HD Hot HD T = 301 K T = 40.6 K
C 2 rich C 2 poor C 2 DIBs Minority Weak ans sharp
Keck Adamkovics, Blake and McCall B = 365 MHz for T = 100 K 182 MHz 200 K 122 MHx 300 K B = MHz HC 7 N MHz HC 9 N MHz HC 11 N 2.60 cm -1
Summary DIBs which correlate well with C 2 and C 3 C 2 DIB HD , Minority, Weak and sharp Doublet structure suggests spin-orbit splitting Linear carbon chain molecule Relatively high density ? DIBs for high temperature medium HD Rotational structure B n 8 – 12? Big question: C 2, C 3 C 2 DIB or C 2 DIB C 2, C 3 ?
HD T = 301 K HD T = 40.6 K C3C3 Adamkovics, Blake, McCall RA 06 The high temperature sightline HD R head