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We design and train a neural network (NN) model to efficiently predict the infrared spectra of interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with a computational cost many orders of magnitude lower than what a first-principles…

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We introduce a machine learning molecular dynamics (MLMD) approach to calculate the anharmonic infrared (IR) absorption spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), key carriers of interstellar aromatic IR bands. This method accounts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xinghong Mai , Zhao Wang , Lijun Pan , Johannes Schorghuber , Peter Kovacs , Jesus Carrete , Georg K. H. Madsen

Machine learning feature importance calculations are used to determine the molecular substructures that are responsible for mid and far-infrared (IR) emission features of neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Zhisen Meng , Yong Zhang , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are recognized as the primary contributors to the aromatic infrared bands (AIBs) widely observed in space. However, analyzing these AIBs remains challenging because of the immense structural diversity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Guoqing Tang , Jiang He , Zhao Wang , Dong Qiu

The mid-infrared (IR; 5-15~$\mu$m) spectrum of a wide variety of astronomical objects exhibits a set of broad emission features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3 and 12.7 $\mu$m. About 30 years ago it was proposed that these signatures are due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Marissa J. F. Rosenberg , Olivier Berné , Christiaan Boersma

While powerful techniques exist to accurately account for anharmonicity in vibrational molecular spectroscopy, they are computationally very expensive and cannot be routinely employed for large species and/or at non- zero vibrational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Giacomo Mulas , Cyril Falvo , Patrick Cassam-Chenaï , Christine Joblin

The infrared (IR) emission of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) permeates our universe; astronomers have detected the IR signatures of PAHs around many interstellar objects. The IR emission of interstellar PAHs differs from their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-05 Cameron J. Mackie , Tao Chen , Alessandra Candian , Timothy J. Lee , Alexander G. G. M. Tielens

In the era of high-sensitivity infrared (IR) astronomy, traditional manual diagnostics are no longer sufficient to harvest the complex physical insights hidden within interstellar spectra. We introduce a machine learning paradigm that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Zhao Wang

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules are widely considered as the preferred candidate for the carrier of the unidentified infrared emission bands observed in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes. In this paper we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yong Zhang , Sun Kwok

Context. The 3.3 $\mu$m aromatic C-H stretching band of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules seen in a wide variety of astrophysical regions is often accompanied by a series of weak satellite bands at ~3.4-3.6 $\mu$m. One of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Tao Chen , Yi Luo , Aigen Li

We extend the prediction of vibrational spectra to large sized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules comprising up to \sim 1500 carbon atoms by evaluating the efficiency of several computational chemistry methodologies. We employ…

We report on an experimental and theoretical investigation of the importance of anharmonicity in the 3 micron CH stretching region of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. We present mass-resolved, high-resolution spectra of the…

Aims. In this work we determine the effects of anharmonicity on the mid-infrared spectra of the linear polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene and pentacene recorded using the free electron laser FELIX.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-15 A. K. Lemmens , D. B. Rap , J. M. M. Thunnissen , C. J. Mackie , A. Candian , A. G. G. M. Tielens , A. M. Rijs , W. J. Buma

Supervised machine learning models are trained with various molecular descriptors to predict infrared emission spectra of interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. We demonstrate that a feature importance analysis based on the random…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Zhisen Meng , Xiaosi Zhu , Peter Kovacs , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the most powerful experimental techniques to characterize the structure of molecules and confined liquids. Nevertheless, the complexity of the systems under investigation usually requires…

Raman spectroscopy is an important tool in the study of vibrational properties and composition of molecules, peptides and even proteins. Raman spectra can be simulated based on the change of the electronic polarizability with vibrations,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Ethan Berger , Juha Niemelä , Outi Lampela , André H. Juffer , Hannu-Pekka Komsa

We present the results of a computational study to investigate the infrared spectroscopic properties of a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules and their fully dehydrogenated counterparts. We constructed a database…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 C. J. Mackie , E. Peeters , C. W. Bauschlicher , J. Cami

Aims. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study molecules in space. A key issue in such analyses is understanding the effect that temperature and anharmonicity have on different vibrational bands, and thus interpreting the IR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Tao Chen , Cameron Mackie , Alessandra Candian , Timothy J. Lee , Alexander G. G. M. Tielens

Recurrent fluorescence (RF) is an important relaxation mechanism in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which could stabilize them and contribute to the production of aromatic infrared bands that are observed in the infrared spectra of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Damien Borja , Florent Calvo , Pascal Parneix , Cyril Falvo

We present a charge distribution based model that computes the infrared spectrum of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules using recent measurements or quantum chemical calculations of specific PAHs. The model is applied to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Ameek Sidhu , A. G. G. M. Tielens , Els Peeters , Jan Cami
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