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Published July 1964 | Published
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An interstellar cloud with a high concentration of CN molecules

Münch, Guido

Abstract

A group of stars embedded in an emission nebula near the cluster NGC 7822 has been discovered to have a unique interstellar spectrum, characterized by exceedingly strong CN lines. Evidence is presented favoring the hypothesis that the CN molecules arise in the immediate neighborhood of the H 11 region boundary. It is further suggested that the CN molecules are formed in the solid particles of the Hr region when flashed by the UV radiation in the advancing ionization front.

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© 1964 American Astronomical Society. Received March 5, 1964. I am indebted to Professor Wilse G. Robinson for his opinion concerning the formation of interstellar radicals and to Drs. George H. Herbig and John E. Gaustad for reading and criticizing this paper. My thanks are due also to Miss Joyce Sheeley for some of the measuring and reduction of the observational material.

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