Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ===== On the Detection of Octatetraynyl, C8H, in Space ===== Even the octatetraynyl radical in its <sup>2</sup>Π<sub>3/2</sub> lower spin component has been detected in ten rotational transitions toward IRC +10216 by\\ J. Cernicharo, and M. Guélin,\\ **[[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996A%26A...309L..27C|Discovery of the C<sub>8</sub>H Radical]]**,\\ //Astron. Astrophys.// **309** L27–L30 (1996)\\ before it was actually detected in the laboratory. Later, it was also identified in TMC-1 by observing four lines of two rotational transitions:\\ M. B. Bell, P. A. Feldman, J. K. G. Watson, M. C. McCarthy, M. J. Travers, C. A. Gottlieb, and P. Thaddeus,\\ **[[https://doi.org/10.1086/307303|Observations of Long C<sub>n</sub>H Molecules in the Dust Cloud TMC-1]]**,\\ //Astrophys. J.// **518** 740–747 (1999). ---- Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller; 05, 2007 ---- molecules/ism/c8h.txt Last modified: 2019/10/24 09:49by mueller