On the Identification of Molecules in the Cool Carbon Stars
Abstract
Various problems encountered in identifying molecular lines in the rich spectra of cool carbon and related stars are considered. Special attention is given to the FeH, ZrS, and CN molecules. Following a review of the principles of identifying stellar lines, recent successful identifications are discussed that illustrate the wide range in the incompleteness of the laboratory spectroscopy.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- October 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132293
- Bibcode:
- 1988PASP..100.1202L
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Stars;
- Cool Stars;
- Molecular Spectra;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars;
- Emission Spectra;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Astrophysics;
- STARS: CARBON;
- LINE IDENTIFICATIONS