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Extinction curves for graphite-silicate grain mixtures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

N.C. Wickramasinghe
N.C. Wickramasinghe*
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Abstract

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Mixtures of graphite particles ejected from carbon stars and silicates from oxygen-rich giants are capable of producing excellent fits to the observed interstellar extinction curve. The fits extend over the entire wavelength range of the observations, and include a hump at ~ 2200 Å in the ultraviolet due to the graphite components of the mixtures. The agreement with the observed extinction curve remains good if the small silicate particles acquire mantles of either ice or solid H2. If no mantles are present around the silicate grains comparable mass densities of graphite and silicates are indicated; if mantles of either ice or solid H2 are present the mass density of silicates may be an order of magnitude below that of graphite in the interstellar medium.

Type
Part I: Stellar Fluxes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 36: Ultraviolet Stellar Spectra and Related Ground-Based Observations , 1970 , pp. 42 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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