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H3+ and UKIRT: a saga of discovery

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2009-04-28 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Authors: Tom Geballe
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Abstract

This paper relates the history of attempts to detect H3+ in the dense interstellar medium, from the early 1980's to the successful detection in 1996.

Keywords

H3+ interstellar medium detection UKIRT history

Cite

@article{arxiv.0904.3952,
  title  = {H3+ and UKIRT: a saga of discovery},
  author = {Tom Geballe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3952},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages incl. 1 figure, pdf

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