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Functionalized polcyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an interesting class of molecules in which the electronic state of the graphene-like hydrocarbon part is tuned by the functional group. Searching for new types of donor and acceptor…

The observed variations in profiles of the interstellar aromatic infrared bands correlate with the object type and are indicative of PAH populations existing i n different sources. Spectroscopic studies on PAHs can provide tools for the int…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Pathak , Shantanu Rastogi

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of great astrochemical and astrobiological interest due to their potential to form prebiotic molecules. We analyse the 7.7 and 8.6 ${\mu}$m PAH bands in 126 predominantly starburst-dominated…

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

Rapid, efficient deactivation of the photoexcited PAH cations accounts for their remarkable photostability and have important implications for astrochemistry, as these cations are the leading candidates for the species responsible for the…

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are fundamental to understanding the interstellar medium (ISM) of several astrophysical objects. Normally present in Starburst (SB) galaxies, they have also been more frequently detected in active…

Planet-forming disks of gas and dust around young stars contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We aim to characterize how the charge state of PAHs can be used as a probe of flows of gas through protoplanetary gaps. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. M. Maaskant , M. Min , L. B. F. M. Waters , A. G. G. M. Tielens

The signatures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been observed in protoplanetary discs, and their emission features obtained from spectral energy distributions (SED) have been used in the literature to characterise their size…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 K. Lange , C. Dominik , A. G. G. M. Tielens

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules have been long adjudged to contribute to the frequently detected distinct emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.2 and 12.7 {\mu}m with weaker and blended features distributed in the 3-20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Mridusmita Buragohain , Amit Pathak , Itsuki Sakon , Takashi Onaka

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are believed to be the small-size tail of the interstellar carbonaceous dust grain population. Their vibrational emission is the most widely accepted source of the aromatic near-infrared features, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-21 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Laura Pérez , Ronald Maddalena , Anish Roshi

This study presents optical and near-infrared photometric observations, alongside mid-infrared spectroscopic data from the ISO SWS instrument, to examine potential correlations between Aromatic Infrared Band (AIB) features and the optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-08 Rahul Kumar Anand , Atul Kumar Singh , Saurabh Sharma , Brijesh Kumar , Shantanu Rastogi

The formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the circumstellar outflows of evolved stars is reviewed, with an emphasis on carbon stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch. Evidence for PAHs present in their winds is provided by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Isabelle Cherchneff

The search for large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with over 100 carbon atoms is crucial to resolving the origin of unidentified infrared emission (UIE) bands. These bands are commonly observed in nebulae and the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-22 Yi Shao , Yong Zhang , Xu-Jia Ouyang , Chuan-Peng Zhang

Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) are an important component of the interstellar medium of galaxies, containing some 10 percent of the elemental carbon. Their vibrational emission dominates the mid-infrared spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 A. G. G. M. Tielens

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) appear to be ubiquitous in terrestrial atmosphere as well as in the interstellar medium (ISM). In the astrophysical context presence of PAHs is interpreted by the observations of mid-IR emission bands…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Rashmi Singh , Shantanu Rastogi

In order to find out capable molecular source of astronomically well observed infrared (IR) spectrum, asymmetric molecular configuration polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) was analyzed by the density functional theory (DFT) analysis.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-27 Norio Ota

The pre-transitional disk around the Herbig Ae star HD 169142 shows a complex structure of possible ongoing planet formation in dust thermal emission from the near infrared (IR) to millimeter wavelength range. Also, a distinct set of broad…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ji Yeon Seok , Aigen Li

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are believed to be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Yet, to date no specific PAH molecule has been identified. In this paper, a new observational avenue is suggested to detect individual PAHs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-21 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules have been long proposed to be a major carrier of 'Unidentified Infrared' (UIR) emission bands that have been observed ubiquitously in various astrophysical environments. These molecules can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-28 Mridusmita Buragohain , Amit Pathak , Peter Sarre , Takashi Onaka , Itsuki Sakon

We present a model for the hydrogenation states of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the diffuse interstellar medium. First, we study the abundance of hydrogenation and charge states of PAHs due to photo-ionization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 My Ha Vuong , Bernard H. Foing