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Excitation Mechanism of Cometary Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

K.S. Krishna Swamy*
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400 005, India

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The Cometary Spectra in the visible and ultraviolet regions are dominated by the strong emission lines of various molecules. These can be explained in terms of the resonance fluorescence process in the solar radiation.

Type
Comets
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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