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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 205-210Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10053-000-8806-0
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Fluorescence spectra of naphthalene, C10H8, were obtained in the laboratory under conditions which provide an appropriate simulation of the cometary conditions: super-cooled gas phase molecules in a collision-free environment. Five spectra were recorded, the excitation energies ranging from 1422 to 5293 cm(-1) above the first electronic state S-1 at 32020 cm(-1). A comparison with previous jet-cooled naphthalene fluorescence spectra obtained by Beck et al. [1] and Hermine [2] shows that the former results are not consistent with the present ones. Spectra obtained by Beck et al. show weaker intensities at greater wavelengths compared to those obtained by Hermine and ourselves. We also measured the fluorescence lifetimes by recording the fluorescence decay as a function of time after the excitation of the molecules by monochromatic lasers and deduced the fluorescence quantum yields. A synthetic emission spectrum under solar irradiation is obtained for astrophysical implications.
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