Aluminum Oxide in Stellar Spectra: an Infrared Electronic Transition
Abstract
The possibility of detecting the infrared electronic transition A2llj - X2 + of AlO in spectra of cool stars is reviewed. It is shown that the transition may be of importance in Mira-type variables. Additional laboratory investigation of the transition is needed. Key words: molecular spectra - infrared - Mira variables
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- June 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1086/129598
- Bibcode:
- 1974PASP...86..276L