Author： Simonia I.
Publisher： MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica
ISSN： 0038-0946
Source： Solar System Research, Vol.41, Iss.2, 2007-04, pp. : 129-131
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Abstract
The nature of unidentified cometary emission lines is discussed. A model of ice particles in cometary halos as a mixture of frozen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and acyclic hydrocarbons is considered. The properties of frozen hydrocarbon particles are described and 5–7% of the unidentified cometary emission lines are considered as the photoluminescence of frozen hydrocarbons. The positions of unidentified emission lines in the spectrum of Comet 19P/Borrelly are compared with the positions of quasi-lines in the photoluminescence spectra of PAHs that were dissolved in acyclic hydrocarbons at a temperature of 77 K and that constitute a polycrystalline solution.
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