A high-Resolution Catalog of Cometary Emission Lines

Brown, M. E. and Bouchez, A. H. and Spinrad, H. and Johns-Krull, C. M. (1996) A high-Resolution Catalog of Cometary Emission Lines. Astronomical Journal, 112 (3). pp. 1197-1202. ISSN 0004-6256. doi:10.1086/118090. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121003-101627095

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Abstract

Using high-resolution spectra obtained with the Hamilton echelle spectrograph at Lick Observatory, we have constructed a catalog of emission lines observed in comets Swift-Tuttle and Brorsen-Metcalf. The spectra cover the range between 3800 Å and 9900 Å with a spectral resolution of λ/Δλ~42000. In the spectra, we catalog 2997 emission lines of which we identify 2438. We find cometary lines due to H, O, C_2, CN, NH_2, C_3, H_2O^+, CH, and CH^+. We list 559 unidentified lines compiled from the two spectra and comment on possibilities for their origins.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/118090	DOI	Article
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1996AJ....112.1197B	ADS	Article

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Brown, M. E.	0000-0002-8255-0545

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© 1996 American Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 1996 April 19; revised 1996 June 18. We thank C. Arpigny, S. Kim, and S. Wyckoff for useful conversations. This work was supported by NASA through grant NAGW-2883 and grant HF-1056.01-94A from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-2655.

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NASA	NAGW-2883
NASA	HF-1056.01-94A
NASA	NAS5-2655
Space Telescope Science Institute	UNSPECIFIED

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A high-Resolution Catalog of Cometary Emission Lines Brown, M. E.; Bouchez, A. H.; Spinrad, A. H.; Johns-Krull, C. M. Astronomical Journal v.112, p.1197-1202

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