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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2006-02-14
    Description: The carbon isotopic composition of individual organic compounds of meteoritic origin remains unknown, as most reported carbon isotopic ratios are for bulk carbon or solvent extractable fractions. The researchers managed to determine the carbon isotopic ratios for individual hydrocarbons and monocarboxylic acids isolated from a Murchison sample by a freeze-thaw-ultrasonication technique. The abundances of monocarboxylic acids and saturated hydrocarbons decreased with increasing carbon number and the acids are more abundant than the hydrocarbon with the same carbon number. For both classes of compounds, the C-13 to C-12 ratios decreased with increasing carbon number in a roughly parallel manner, and each carboxylic acid exhibits a higher isotopic number than the hydrocarbon containing the same number of carbon atoms. These trends are consistent with a kinetically controlled synthesis of higher homologues for lower ones.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: NASA, Washington Second Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin and Evolution of Life; p 40
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Sciama's hypothesis that the dark matter associated with galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the intergalactic medium consists of tau neutrinos of rest mass 28-30 eV whose decay generates ultraviolet photons of energy roughly 14-15 eV, has been tested using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope flows aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. A straightforward application of Sciama's model predicts that a spectral line from neutrino decay photons should be observed from the rich galaxy cluster Abell 665 with an SNR of about 30. No such emission was detected. For neutrinos in the mass range 27.2-32.1 eV, the observations set a lower lifetime limit significantly greater than Sciama's model requires.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 351; 128-130
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The properties of interstellar gas in the galactic halo are reviewed. Halo gas is found to have a wide range of physical conditions with temperatures ranging from less than 170 K to more than 200,000 K. The gas extending away from the plane of the Milky Way has density scale heights ranging from less than 300 pc for certain species in the neutral medium to approximately 3000 pc for the most highly ionized gas. The complex kinematical characteristics of the gas provides important clues about its origin. The gas phase elemental abundances in the neutral halo gas are closer to solar than is found for the highly depleted gas of the Milky Way disk. The possible origin of gas at large distances away from the galactic plane is discussed.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The IUE observations and theories involving the gaseous galactic corona of the Milky Way are reviewed. Observational topics emphasized include results relevant to the z distribution, kinematics, and ionic and elemental abundances of the gas. The theories for the support, ionization, and kinematics of the galactic halo appear to require a merging of the ideas associated with the galactic fountain models and the photoionized halo models. The Si IV found in the galactic halo is likely mostly produced by photoionization while the N V is probably mostly produced by collisional ionization in cooling fountain gas; C IV may represent an intermediate case with important contributions from photoionization and from collisional ionization.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: ESA Proceedings of an International Symposium on New Insights in Astrophysics. Eight Years of UV Astronomy with IUE; p 259-265
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The detection of highly ionized gas in the Galactic halo through UV absorption and emission lines is reported. In absorption the species under consideration include Si IV, C IV, and N V. The presence of N V absorption implies the existence of some gas with a temperature near 200,000 K. The highly ionized absorbing gas toward distant stars in direction b of less than -50 deg has simple and relatively narrow line profiles and small average LSR velocities while the gas in the direction b of greater than 50 deg reveals a complex pattern of motions with substantial inflow and outflow velocities. C IV emission brightens toward the Galactic poles and has a polar intensity of 5000 photons/sq cm s ster. In the nonequilibrium cooling of a Galactic fountain, a flow rate of 4 M sub O/yr to each side of the Galaxy is required to produce the amount of N V absorption found in the halo, while a flow rate five times larger is required to produce the observed level of C IV emission.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: In: The interstellar disk-halo connection in galaxies (A93-18998 05-90); p. 131-142.
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The evolution of the halo environments of the Galaxy and of other galaxies at early epochs is discussed, summarizing the results of observations of quasar absorption lines obtained with the IUE satellite since its launch in 1978. Topics addressed include the Ly-alpha forest, nearby galaxies, displaced absorption systems, and systems with z(a) approximately equal to z(e). The data are presented in sample spectra and graphs and described in detail. It is suggested that definitive answers on the production of quasar absorption lines by the extended gaseous halos and/or disks of distant galaxies must await the higher-quality observational data to become available with the Hubble Space Telescope.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Observations of comet Levy (1990c) were made with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope during the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission on 10 Dec. 1990. The spectrum, covering the wavelength range 415 to 1850 A at a spectral emission of 3 A (in first order), shows the presence of carbon monoxide and atomic hydrogen, carbon, and sulfur in the coma. Aside from H I Lyman-beta, no cometary features are detected below 1200 A, although cometary O I and O II would be masked by the same emissions present in the day airglow spectrum. The 9.4 x 116 arcsec aperture corresponds to 12,000 x 148,000 km at the comet. The derived production rate of CO relative to water, 0.13 + or - 0.02, compared with the same ratio derived from IUE observations (made in Sep. 1990) which sample a much smaller region of the coma, 0.04 + or - 0.01, suggests the presence of an extended source of CO, as was found in comet Halley. Upper limits on Ne and Ar abundance are within an order of magnitude or solar abundances.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Abstracts for the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991; p 60
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The ultraviolet spectrum of a Balmer-line filament located just outside the main body of optical filaments in the Cygnus Loop confirms the nonradiative shock wave theory for its origin. This theory is extended to include the hydrogen two-photon continuum, and the possibility of slow electron-ion equilibration in the postshock gas is considered. The shock velocity is inferred from the H-alpha profile. Comparison of model calculations with optical and ultraviolet spectra favors Coulomb equilibration behind a 170 km/s shock over models with rapid equilibration due to plasma turbulence. Elemental abundances in the preshock gas are found to be typical of diffuse interstellar clouds. The ram pressure behind the shock is higher than the pressures inferred for bright optical filaments. It is suggested that the bright optical filaments are regions of thermally unstable cooling behind shocks faster than the shock velocities inferred from their optical and ultraviolet spectra.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 275; 636-644
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The molecular cloud associated with the S235 H II region has been studied by means of molecular lines and near-infrared observations. The cloud consists of two components, one of which partly surrounds the S235 H II region. The other component contains a dense, hot region of active star formation, marked by self-reversed CO profiles, compact H II regions, masers, and infrared sources. From the molecular line data, the size and mass of the two components are estimated to be 6-8 pc and 3000-4000 solar masses. More detailed studies near the region of active star formation yield estimates of density (approximately 200,000-500,000/cu cm) and the abundances of H2CO, HCO(+), HCN, and (C-13)O. Analysis of the energetics suggests that the cloud is heated by the exciting star of S235 and by the exciting stars of the compact H II regions. Assuming that the gas is heated by collisions with warm dust grains, the far-infrared luminosity has been predicted. The observations of far-infrared emission are in reasonable agreement with predictions.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; vol. 246
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The S88 molecular cloud has been observed in several molecular lines and at infrared wavelengths from 1 to 100 microns. The CO emission has a single, sharp peak which is near the H-alpha emission region S88 B and centered on a compact H II region observed in the radio continuum. The infrared observations indicate that the principal luminosity source is located near the radio continuum peak and is hidden behind substantial extinction, presumably from the molecular cloud. The molecular cloud has a size of about 6.5 pc and a mass of about 5,000 solar masses at an assumed distance of 2 kpc. Regions of very high density (more than 10,000/cu cm) do not seem to be present. Analysis of the energetics leads to a predicted dust cooling rate in good agreement with the infrared observations, which indicate L = 180,000 solar luminosities. A more detailed examination of the energetics indicates that densities may be insufficient for collisions of molecules with warm dust grains to heat the gas to the observed kinetic temperature.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; vol. 250
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