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标题：High-resolution laser spectroscopy of the linear SiC 2Si molecule and its astrophysical implications
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作者：Boxing Zhu ; Jingwang Gu ; Chunting Yu 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2020
卷号：637
页码：1-6
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/202037448
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：Small silicon-carbon clusters are important gas-phase constituents of stellar atmospheres, and are thought to play a role as potential seeds of the interstellar dusts formed in the envelopes of evolved carbon stars. Here we present the high-resolution optical spectra of the linear SiC2Si molecule (l-Si2C2) studied via laboratory experiments. Thel-Si2C2molecules are generated in a supersonically expanding planar plasma by discharging a silane-acetylene-argon gas mixture. The optical absorption spectra in the 5000−5300 Å region are recorded using sensitive pulsed cavity ring-down spectroscopy. In total, five optical absorption bands belonging to the$ \tilde{C} ^{3}\Sigma_{u} ^{-} $–$ \tilde{X} ^{3}\Sigma_{g} ^{-} $electronic transition system ofl-Si2C2are measured with fully resolved spin splitting fine structures in individual rotational transitions. Accurate spectroscopic constants for both$ \tilde{X} ^{3}\Sigma_{g} ^{-} $and$ \tilde{C} ^{3}\Sigma_{u} ^{-} $states ofl-Si2C2, including the spin-spin interaction constants and spin-rotation interaction constants, are determined from the experimental spectra, which can be used to simulate these optical bands with different temperatures. Using the determined spectroscopic constants, optical spectra ofl-Si2C2simulated with different rotational excitation temperatures are compared to the stellar spectra of evolved carbon stars V Hya and IRAS 12311−23509, where the triatomic SiC2are known to be abundant. Tentative assignments of thel-Si2C2spectral features in the stellar spectra are discussed.
关键词：enmolecular dataISM: moleculesISM: lines and bandsstars: carbon