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arXiv 2001.06431astro-ph.GA
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星际弥散带和扩展红辐射的载流子是一样的吗?

Are the Carriers of Diffuse Interstellar Bands and Extended Red Emission the same?

Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Adolf N. Witt, Carlos Alvarez, Jan Cami

摘要:

我们报告的第一个光谱观测的背景恒星看到通过之间的区域的电离前和解离前的星云IC 63。该光解离区域(PDR)表现出归因于大分子/离子的荧光的强扩展红色发射(ERE)。我们在恒星光谱中探测到了强烈的星际弥散带(DIB),包括一个异常强烈和广泛的DIB,位于$λ$ 4428。检测到与ERE相关的强DIB可能与DIB和ERE的携带者相同的建议一致。可能的ERE过程是经常性的荧光,使逆内部转换从高激发的振动水平的基态的低电子状态,随后过渡到地面。这为分子/分子离子提供了快速辐射冷却的途径,大大提高了它们在强辐射环境中的生存能力。IC 63中的DIB $λ$ 5797和$λ$ 5780的等效宽度之比(EW)与低密度星际介质中观测到的相同,其中UV星际辐射场(ISRF)至少弱两个数量级。这证明了这两种DIB的比率可以作为ISRF紫外线强度的量度的建议是错误的。对IC 63的PDR的星云光谱的观测,在紧邻DIB被探测到的位置,没有发现任何在红色矩形星云光谱中看到的尖锐发射特征。这使人们对这些特征的载流子与在稍短波长处看到的DIB的载流子相同的提议产生了怀疑。

英文摘要:

We report the first spectroscopic observations of a background star seen through the region between the ionization front and the dissociation front of the nebula IC 63. This photodissociation region (PDR) exhibits intense extended red emission (ERE) attributed to fluorescence by large molecules/ions. We detected strong diffuse interstellar bands (DIB) in the stellar spectrum, including an exceptionally strong and broad DIB at $λ$4428. The detection of strong DIBs in association with ERE could be consistent with the suggestion that the carriers of DIBs and ERE are identical. The likely ERE process is recurrent fluorescence, enabled by inverse internal conversions from highly excited vibrational levels of the ground state to low-lying electronic states with subsequent transitions to ground. This provides a path to rapid radiative cooling for molecules/molecular ions, greatly enhancing their ability to survive in a strongly irradiated environment. The ratio of the equivalent widths (EW) of DIBs $λ$5797 and $λ$5780 in IC 63 is the same as that observed in the low-density interstellar medium with UV interstellar radiation fields (ISRF) weaker by at least two orders of magnitude. This falsifies suggestions that the ratio of these two DIBs can serve as a measure of the UV strength of the ISRF. Observations of the nebular spectrum of the PDR of IC 63 at locations immediately adjacent to where DIBs were detected failed to reveal any presence of sharp emission features seen in the spectrum of the Red Rectangle nebula. This casts doubts upon proposals that the carriers of these features are the same as those of DIBs seen at slightly shorter wavelengths.

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