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astro-ph2001
Discovery of water vapor around IRC+10216 as evidence for comets orbiting another star
Gary J. Melnick, David A. Neufeld, K. E. Saavik Ford +2
Since 1995, astronomers have discovered planets with masses comparable to that of Jupiter (318 times Earth's mass) in orbit around approximately 60 stars. Although unseen directly,…
astro-ph1999
ISO Far-IR Spectroscopy of IR-Bright Galaxies and ULIRGs
J. Fischer, M. L. Luhman, S. Satyapal +16
Based on far-infrared spectroscopy of a small sample of nearby infrared-bright and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) with the ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer, we find a dra…
astro-ph1998
ISO observations of molecular hydrogen in HH 54: measurement of a non-equilibrium ortho- to para-H2 ratio
David A. Neufeld, Gary J. Melnick, Martin Harwit
We have detected the S(1), S(2), S(3), S(4) and S(5) pure rotational lines of molecular hydrogen toward the outflow source HH 54, using the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) on b…