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Comments on two-photon absorption by H2 molecules as a source of diffuse interstellar bands

✍ Scribed by Theodore P. Snow

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 285 KB
Volume: 245
Category: Article
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(95)01023-3

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✦ Synopsis

It has been proposed that some of the diffuse interstellar absorption bands which have puzzled astronomers for several decades may be assigned to transitions in vibrationally excited H 2 molecules. These molecules would arise in circumstellar environments where stellar Lyman-cx photons create a population of H 2 in the C ~l-I u, v --9 state through a two-photon process. From this state absorptions in the range between 7660 and 7880 ~k can occur. While intriguing, this suggestion overlooks several critical spectroscopic and astrophysical problems, and for now must be regarded as unproven and probably not viable. In this Letter, we summarize some problems with the hypothesis.

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