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Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are weak absorption features of interstellar origin present in the optical and infrared spectra of stars. Their use as a tool to trace the structure of the Galactic ISM is gaining relevance in the recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-19 A. Monreal-Ibero , R. Lallement , L. Puspitarini , P. Bonifacio , L. Monaco

We have investigated the behaviour of three strong near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) at {\lambda}13177 {\AA}, {\lambda}14680 {\AA}, and {\lambda}15272 {\AA}, on a larger sample of sightlines and over a wider range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 R. Castellanos , F. Najarro , M. Garcia , L. R. Patrick , T. R. Geballe

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features commonly observed in optical/near-infrared spectra of stars and thought to be associated with polyatomic molecules that comprise a significant reservoir of organic material in the…

The interpretation of the more than 300 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) is one of the most long-standing problems in interstellar spectra since the two first bands were reported in 1921. We now predict the frequencies of 260 diffuse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-07 Leif Holmlid

Based on accurate X-ray structure analysis of GdB6 over the temperature range 85-300 K it has been shown that anomalously strong charge carrier scattering in the quantum diffusion regime of charge transport in this compound arises due to…

Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are crucial tracers of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their carriers remain poorly understood. While large-scale surveys have advanced DIB studies in cool stellar spectra, measurements in hot stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiao-Xiao Ma , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Jing Chen , Jun-Chao Liang

Spatiotemporal dynamics of electron-hole pairs locally excited in a silicon-on-insulator structure by indirect interband absorption are studied by measuring differential transmission caused by free-carrier absorption of a probe pulse tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui Zhao

Considered here is the interrelation between five diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs): $\lambda\lambda$ 5545, 6113, 6196, 6445 and 6614 \r{A}. Two DIBs ($\lambda$ 6196 and $\lambda$ 6614 \r{A}) have already been known as well correlated with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-02 A. Bondar

The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption lines observed in visual and near infrared spectra of stars. Understanding their origin in the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the oldest problems in astronomical spectroscopy, as…

Although diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) were discovered over 100 years ago, for most of them, their origins are still unknown. Investigation on the correlations between different DIBs is an important way to study the behavior and…

Interstellar diffuse bands are usually extracted from hot star spectra because they are characterized by smooth continua. It introduces a strong limitation on the number of available targets, and reduces potential studies of the IS matter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hui-Chen Chen , Rosine Lallement , Carine Babusiaux , Lucky Puspitarini , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Vanessa Hill

We present spectroscopic observations of ionized gas in the disk-halo regions of five edge-on galaxies, covering a wavelength range from [OII] 3727A to [SII] 6716.4A. The inclusion of the [OII] emission provides additional constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Otte , J. S. Gallagher , R. J. Reynolds

The molecular carriers of the ubiquitous absorption features called the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have eluded identification for many decades, in part because of the enormous parameter space spanned by the candidates and the limited…

We examine the temperature structure of static coronal active region loops in regimes where thermal conductive transport is driven by Coulomb collisions, by turbulent scattering, or by a combination of the two. (In the last case collisional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Gordon Emslie , Stephen J. Bradshaw

In this brief review of recent work relating the DIBs to other gas-phase constituents of the ISM, we explore correlations between DIB equivalent widths and the column densities of various atomic and molecular species, drawn from a large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel E. Welty

The gas-phase optical absorption spectrum of a thiophenoxy radical (C6H5S), a diffuse interstellar band (DIB) candidate molecule, was observed in the discharge of thiophenol using a cavity ringdown spectrometer. The ground-state rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mitsunori Araki , Kei Niwayama , Koichi Tsukiyama

DIII-D discharges that transition to H-mode solely with off-axis electron cyclotron heating (ECH) often exhibit strong off-axis peaking of electron temperature profiles at the heating location. Electron heat transport properties near these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Ruifeng Xie , Max E. Austin , Kenneth W. Gentle , Craig C. Petty

Diffuse interstellar bands are usually observed in spectra of hot stars, where interstellar lines are rarely blended with stellar ones. The need for hot stars is a strong limitation in the number of sightlines we can observe and the…

Magnesium diboride has many intriguing characteristics, including its relatively high critical temperature and two-band nature. Most prior studies of MgB2 thin film Josephson junctions have been conducted above 2 Kelvin. We report results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Steve Carabello , Joseph Lambert , Jerome Mlack , Roberto Ramos

We have conducted a high signal-to-noise spectroscopic survey of 670 nearby early-type stars, to map Diffuse Interstellar Band (DIB) absorption in and around the Local Bubble. The project started with a Southern hemisphere survey conducted…