oai:arXiv.org:2410.09315
ciencias: astrofísica
2024
16/10/2024
A simple analytic model is presented to predict the near-IR H2 fluorescent line intensities emitted by diffuse interstellar clouds with a Plummer density profile.
It is applicable to sightlines where (1) the column densities of H and H2 have been measured and (2) the peak gas density can be estimated from extinction maps or observations of C2 absorption.
;Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure.
Accepted for publication in RNAAS
Neufeld, David A., 2024, H2 fluorescent emission from the diffuse interstellar medium