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The PAH Hypothesis and the Extinction Curve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

A. Léger
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physique des Solides de l'E.N.S., Université Paris VII, Tour 23 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cédex 05 - France
L. Verstraete
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physique des Solides de l'E.N.S., Université Paris VII, Tour 23 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cédex 05 - France
L. D'Hendecourt
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physique des Solides de l'E.N.S., Université Paris VII, Tour 23 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cédex 05 - France
D. Défourneau
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physique des Solides de l'E.N.S., Université Paris VII, Tour 23 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cédex 05 - France
O. Dutuit
Affiliation:
Physico-Chimie des Rayonnements, Bâtiment 350, Université Paris XI F91405 ORSAY- France
W. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Biochemical Institute, Sieker Landstrasser 19, 2070 AHRENSBURG- FRG
J. C. Lauer
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherches Lorraine, NORSOLOR, Usine de Marienau 57612 FORBACH - France

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The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) hypothesis states that a mixture of free PAH molecules is an ubiquitous and abundant component of the interstellar matter. It has been first formulated by Léger and Puget (1984) on the basis of molecular stability that made PAHs good candidates for the very small grains proposed by Sellgren (1984). Then, they obtained strong, although not final, support from spectroscopy.

Type
Section II: The Overidentified Infrared Emission Features
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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