Swan band

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Spectrum of the blue flame from a butane torch showing excited molecular radical band emission and Swan bands. Spectrum of blue flame.png
Spectrum of the blue flame from a butane torch showing excited molecular radical band emission and Swan bands.

Swan bands are a characteristic of the spectra of carbon stars, comets and of burning hydrocarbon fuels. [1] [2] They are named for the Scottish physicist William Swan, who first studied the spectral analysis of radical diatomic carbon (C2) in 1856. [3]

Swan bands consist of several sequences of vibrational bands scattered throughout the visible spectrum. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ R.C. Johnson (1927). "The structure and origin of the Swan band spectrum of carbon". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A . 226 (636–646): 157–230. Bibcode:1927RSPTA.226..157J. doi: 10.1098/rsta.1927.0005 .
  2. ↑ W.E. Pretty (1927). "The Swan band spectrum of carbon". Proceedings of the Physical Society . 40 (1): 71–78. Bibcode:1927PPS....40...71P. doi:10.1088/0959-5309/40/1/313.
  3. ↑ W. Swan (1857). "On the prismatic spectra of the flames of compounds of carbon and hydrogen" . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 21 (3): 411–430. doi:10.1017/S0080456800032233. S2CID   98339461.
  4. ↑ Robert B. King (1948). "Relative Transition Probabilities of the Swan Bands of Carbon". Astrophysical Journal . 108: 429. Bibcode:1948ApJ...108..429K. doi:10.1086/145078.


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