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Laser Induced Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Cometary Radicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. M. Jackson ,
R. J. Cody  and
M. Sabety-Dzvonik

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A relatively new technique called Laser Induced Photoluminescence Spectroscopy has been applied to laboratory studies of cometary radicals. This technique can be used to measure properties of radicals, to determine photodissociation processes in parent molecules, and to investigate reactions of radicals in specific vibration-rotation levels. Thus far, the LIPS method has been applied to the CN radical to determine: (1) the radiative lifetime and quenching constants for the B2Σ+ state and (2) the photodissociative formation of CN from several parent molecules.

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Part II
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part2: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 706 - 710
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1976

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NAS/NRC Postdoctoral Associate presently at GSFC.

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