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A high-Resolution Catalog of Cometary Emission Lines
Abstract
Using high-resolution spectra obtained with the Hamilton echelle spectrograph at Lick Observatory, we have constructed a catalog of emission lines observed in comets Swift-Tuttle and Brorsen-Metcalf. The spectra cover the range between 3800 Å and 9900 Å with a spectral resolution of λ/Δλ~42000. In the spectra, we catalog 2997 emission lines of which we identify 2438. We find cometary lines due to H, O, C_2, CN, NH_2, C_3, H_2O^+, CH, and CH^+. We list 559 unidentified lines compiled from the two spectra and comment on possibilities for their origins.
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© 1996 American Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 1996 April 19; revised 1996 June 18. We thank C. Arpigny, S. Kim, and S. Wyckoff for useful conversations. This work was supported by NASA through grant NAGW-2883 and grant HF-1056.01-94A from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-2655.Attached Files
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