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Department of Astronomy & Columbia Astrophysics Lab. Columbia University ortunity. Absorption Line Spectroscopy in Practice.
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many open ISM questions- for instance: what form is most of the interstellar carbon? graphite? graphene? polycyclic molecules? X-ray spectroscopy can tell us: absorption spectroscopy of the interstellar medium around the carbon-K edge (280 eV), using the LETGS on the Chandra X-ray Observatory (with John Staunton)
Transmission Spectrum
Ratio 1ES1553+113 LETGS/ 500 ksec instrument C 1s-2π* C 1s-2σ* C II 1s-2p ?? a ‘ red shoulder ’
J. D. Jackson: Classical Electrodynamics real and imaginary parts of the polarizability of the harmonic oscillator: imaginary part: absorption , real part: scattering frequency polarizability real part imaginary part wide narrow
the real polarizability of graphite (Draine 2016) real (scattering) imaginary (absorption) also: the scattering is orientation and polarization dependent ĉ
Transmission Spectrum
Ratio fit scattering by 0.1-0.2μm graphite spheres, random orientation, no polarization; C mass column fixed ? possibly indicative of polarization and/or alignmnent?
Transmission Spectrum
Ratio
(and in fact the spectrum is variable) December 6, 2013 November 9, 2013
pulling the spectrum apart: evidence for circumstellar absorption (huge Doppler blueshift) C VI Lyman spectrum
n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1-3, m= v ≈ -1300 km/s C VI
N VI n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1- n=1-3, m= same velocity offset in N VI (and C V)
statements of general validity, and possibly of educational value
and an encore: Chandra HETGS Cygnus X-3 m= (with Aswath Suryanarayanan) a P Cyg profile on the He-like Fe resonance line