Strongest observed CO₂ bands in R Leo
Date
Ro-vibrational diagram of the strongest observed CO₂ bands in R Leo. The chosen stellar effective temperature is 2750 K, with a continuum flux peaking at ~2.5 µm, which causes the initial radiative excitation of the CO₂ molecules up to high energy vibrational states through the bands at 2.7 µm and 4.2 µm.
Credit
Fonfría et al. 2020
Image Number
SCI2021_014
