Frozen hydrocarbon particles of cometary halos as carriers of unidentified emissions

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irakli Simonia
Keyword(s):  
Frozen Hydrocarbon Particles

scholarly journals Organic Molecules in the Icy Bodies of Planetary Systems – Accepted Notions and New Ideas

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irakli Simonia ◽  
Dale P. Cruikshank
Keyword(s):  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Emission Lines ◽  
Photoluminescence Spectra ◽  
Spectral Emission ◽  
Small Bodies ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Molecules ◽  
Complex Organic ◽  
Frozen Hydrocarbon Particles

Abstract Cometary bodies are acknowledged to contain some of the most pristine matter in the Solar System, including ices and minerals. Certain number of previously unidentified spectral emission features detected in comets can be explained as emission by hydrocarbon molecules enclosed in a Shpolskii matrix and forming frozen hydrocarbon particles. UV-induced photoluminescence spectra of several self-organized molecules exhibit emission lines coincident with unidentified cometary lines, and open the possibility of the presence of this complex organic as components of the pristine organic inventory of comets. Complex organic was detected also in three satellites of Saturn. We describe in this paper results of our investigation of complex organic of the small bodies and present new approaches and hypotheses.

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