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The green color seen in the coma of Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) and other comets, but not in their tails, is due to emissions from quad-bond Diatomic carbon (aka dicarbon) molecules.
Sunlight heats the comet’s ice and organic material to produce C2 molecules, which break apart in ~2 days before they reach the tail. C2 is excited by solar UV radiation and emits mostly in infrared but its triplet state radiates at 518 nm.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220110a/full/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
#comet #C2023E1 #dicarbon
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The green color seen in the coma of Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) and other comets, but not in their tails, is due to emissions from quad-bond Diatomic carbon (aka dicarbon) molecules.
Sunlight heats the comet’s ice and organic material to produce C2 molecules, which break apart in ~2 days before they reach the tail. C2 is excited by solar UV radiation and emits mostly in infrared but its triplet state radiates at 518 nm.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220110a/full/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
#comet #C2023E1 #dicarbon
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The green color seen in the coma of Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) and other comets, but not in their tails, is due to emissions from quad-bond Diatomic carbon (aka dicarbon) molecules.
Sunlight heats the comet’s ice and organic material to produce C2 molecules, which break apart in ~2 days before they reach the tail. C2 is excited by solar UV radiation and emits mostly in infrared but its triplet state radiates at 518 nm.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220110a/full/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
#comet #C2023E1 #dicarbon
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The green color seen in the coma of Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) and other comets, but not in their tails, is due to emissions from quad-bond Diatomic carbon (aka dicarbon) molecules.
Sunlight heats the comet’s ice and organic material to produce C2 molecules, which break apart in ~2 days before they reach the tail. C2 is excited by solar UV radiation and emits mostly in infrared but its triplet state radiates at 518 nm.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220110a/full/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
#comet #C2023E1 #dicarbon
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The green color seen in the coma of Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) and other comets, but not in their tails, is due to emissions from quad-bond Diatomic carbon (aka dicarbon) molecules.
Sunlight heats the comet’s ice and organic material to produce C2 molecules, which break apart in ~2 days before they reach the tail. C2 is excited by solar UV radiation and emits mostly in infrared but its triplet state radiates at 518 nm.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220110a/full/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
#comet #C2023E1 #dicarbon
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