Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Past and Present
Abstract
The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have come to the fore as an important mystery. This paper presents the history of DIB discovery and research; their importance; a summary of their properties; constraints on proposed identifications; a survey of DIB papers (including graduate student's theses); and a web site that lists DIBs paper from 1922 to 2011 (to be extended to the present).
- Publication:
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The Diffuse Interstellar Bands
- Pub Date:
- February 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921313015512
- Bibcode:
- 2014IAUS..297....3S
- Keywords:
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- ISM: abundances;
- ISM: atoms;
- ISM: lines and bands;
- ISM: molecules