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Role of Impurities in Interstellar Graphite Grains

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ACCURATE measurements of the wavelength dependence of interstellar obscuration in the spectral range from 10,000 Å to 3400 Å (refs. 1–4) show a distinct change in the slope of the extinction curve at 4300 Å. Extinction observations have been made for a number of galactic regions, and it is found that a change in slope always occurs at 4300 Å but that the magnitude of the change differs significantly from one region to another. At the same time, an unidentified interstellar band of half-width approximately 20 Å appears at 4430 Å, but the discontinuity in the slope of the extinction curve does not affect the profile of this band5.

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IRELAND, J., NANDY, K., SEDDON, H. et al. Role of Impurities in Interstellar Graphite Grains. Nature 215, 377–378 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215377a0

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