Laboratory spectra of cold gas phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations, and their possible relation to the diffuse interstellar bands

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作者
Bréchignac, P [1 ]
Pino, T [1 ]
Boudin, N [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, Photophys Mol Lab, F-91405 Orsay, France
关键词
diffuse interstellar bands; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; van der Waals complexes; electronic spectra; PAH cations; intramolecular dynamics;
D O I
10.1016/S1386-1425(00)00441-8
中图分类号
O433 [光谱学];
学科分类号
0703 ; 070302 ;
摘要
A novel laboratory technique is described, combining the use of supersonic expansion, laser excitation and small aromatic-rare gas van der Waals (vdW) clusters properties, which was developed to access the electronic absorption spectra of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) cations in the visible. It consists in preparing vdW complexes of the PAH molecule with a rare gas in a molecular beam, to photoionize it by resonant selective two-photon ionization, then to photodissociate this ionic complex by means of a delayed laser pulse in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The method is illustrated by presenting the visible spectra of the Naphthalene, Phenanthrene, Fluorene and Phenylacetylene cations. Such spectra can be unambiguously compared to the astronomical spectra of reddened stars, which exhibit the so-called diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in absorption. An interesting feature of the technique is its ability to measure the absolute absorption cross-sections. The large values of the oscillator strengths of the transitions, which are derived, are discussed in the astrophysical context which consists in considering that the PAH cations could be carriers for some of the DIBs. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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