Abstract
AbstractThe Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered several objects with unusual spectra, where the emission features from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are shifted to longer wavelengths than normally observed. Previously, only two of these class C PAH spectra had been identified. The new and larger sample reveals that PAHs emit at longer wavelengths when processed by cooler radiation fields. Limited laboratory data show that samples with mixtures of aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons produce emission features at longer wavelengths than purely aromatic samples. The aliphatic bonds are more fragile and would only survive in cooler radiation fields. In harsher radiation fields, the aliphatics attached to the aromatic hydrocarbons are destroyed.
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