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A New Near-IR C-2 Linelist for an Improved Chemical Analysis of Hydrogen-deficient, Carbon-rich Giants

Garcia-Hernandez, DA; Masseron, T; Zamora, O; Manchado, A; Rao, NK; Reddy, ABS; Lambert, DL; ... Tennyson, J; + view all (2019) A New Near-IR C-2 Linelist for an Improved Chemical Analysis of Hydrogen-deficient, Carbon-rich Giants. In: Werner, K and Stehle, C and Rauch, T and Lanz, TM, (eds.) Radiative Signatures from the Cosmos. (pp. pp. 147-152). Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Paris, France. Green open access

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Abstract

Diatomic carbon (C2) is ubiquitous in astronomical environments, from comets and stars to translucent clouds and the interstellar medium. In particular, the C2 bands (mainly the Ballik-Ramsay and Phillips transitions) are an important source of opacity in the near-IR region of carbon stars such as the hydrogen deficient carbon-rich (HdC) or R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars. Present C2 linelists are still not accurate enough (e.g., in wavelength positions) to model the near-IR spectra of HdC and RCB stars, strongly limiting our ability to properly model their complex spectra and to extract the elemental (an isotopic, when possible) abundances of key elements like C, N, O, F, etc. Very recently, a new near-IR C2 linelist (including both Ballik-Ramsay and Phillips systems, among others) have been generated by the ExoMol project (Yurchenko et al. 2018; see www.exomol.com). The synthetic spectrum constructed for the benchmark HdC star HD 137613, using this new C2 linelist, provides an unprecedented match to its high-resolution (R∼50,000) observed spectrum. The new C2 linelist is thus expected to significantly improve the near-IR chemical analysis for HdC and RCB stars but also for normal carbon stars (e.g., C-rich AGB and dwarf stars) and even Solar System bodies like comets.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: A New Near-IR C-2 Linelist for an Improved Chemical Analysis of Hydrogen-deficient, Carbon-rich Giants
Event: Conference on Radiative Signatures from the Cosmos
Location: Sorbonne Univ, Paris, FRANCE
Dates: 23 October 2018 - 26 October 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-58381-925-8
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086979
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