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Extraterrestrial Molecules: Present and Future Observations from Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Cristiano Batalli Cosmovici
Cristiano Batalli Cosmovici*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Fisica Cosmica, Universita di Lecce*

Abstract

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In the last ten years Molecular Astrophysics has become an extremely interesting field of interdisciplinary research as a result of unexpected discoveries of complex organic molecules made by radioastronomy in many regions and objects of the Galaxy. Since not all molecules have detectable transitions through the atmospheric windows, the development of UV and IR space astronomy will allow us to study new important molecular transitions in the interstellar medium and in the atmospheres of cool stars and comets. In this paper the present status of molecular astrophysics will be described and special emphasis will be devoted to the importance of IR space astronomy for the future knowledge of molecular species in the interstellar medium and in the atmospheres of Carbon stars where the low temperatures are particularly, suitable for infrared studies

Type
VIII Space Spectroscopy and Future Developments in Classification
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 47: Spectral Classification of the Future , 1979 , pp. 439 - 456
Copyright
Copyright © Vatican Observatory 1979

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