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Laboratory investigations aimed at building a database for the interpretation of JWST spectra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2020
Abstract
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to be launched in 2021. The JWST’s science instruments will provide high quality spectra acquired in the line of sight to young stellar objects whose interpretation will require a robust database of laboratory data. With this in mind, an experimental work is in progress in the Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics in Catania to study the profile (shape, width, and peak position) of the main infrared bands of molecular species expected to be present in icy grain mantles. Our study also takes into account the modifications induced on icy samples by low-energy cosmic ray bombardment and by thermal processing. Here we present some recent results on deuterium hydrogen monoxide (HDO), N-bearing species, and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Present address: Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
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