Cosmic Deuterium

Overview

Earliest Background

92-cm Spin Flip

Deuterium in the Sun

Ultraviolet Deuterium

Deuterated Molecules

Theoretical Nucleosynthesis

Deuterium in the Orion Nebula

Deuterium and QSOs (Quasi-Stellar Objects)

KNAC (Keck Northeastern Astronomy COnsortium) papers

92-cm Spin Flip

Cesarsky, Diego A.; Moffet, Alan T. 1972, "Possible Discovery of Interstellar Deuterium," Sixth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci. 224, 295-300 (1973).

Cesarsky, Diego A.; Alan T. Moffet; Pasachoff, J. M. 1973, "327 MHz Observations of the Galactic Center: Possible Detection of a Deuterium Absorption Line," Astrophys. J. Letters 180, L1-L6.

Pasachoff, Jay M.; Cesarsky, Diego A. 1974, "Further Observations at the Interstellar Deuterium Frequency," Astrophys. J. 193, 65-67

Sarma, N.V.G.; Mohanty, D.K. 1977, "Search for the Deuterium Absorption Line at 327 MHz in the Direction of the Galactic Centre" MNRAS, 184, 191

Anatharamaiah, K.R.; Radhakrishnan, V. 1979, "A New Upper Limit to the Abundance Ratio of Atomic Deuterium to Hydrogen in the Direction of the Galactic Centre" A&A 79 L9-L11

Blitz, Leo; Heiles, Carl; 1987, "A new assault on the 92 centimeter line of D I," Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 313, Feb. 15, 1987, p. L95-L98.

Lubowich, D.; Anantharamaiah, K. R.; and Pasachoff, Jay M. 1989, "A Search for Localized Sources of Non-Cosmological Deuterium Near the Galactic Center," Astrophys. J. 345, 770-775.

Heiles, Carl; McCullough, Peter; R.; Glassgold, Alfred E. 1993, "Radio Observations of D I and fractionation," Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 89, no. 2, p. 271-292

Chengalur, J. N.; Braun, R.; Butler, W. 1997, "DI in the outer Galaxy," Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.318, p.L35-L38

Lubowich, D.; Pasachoff, Jay M.; Ostenson, J. A. 2001, "Deuterium Near and Far in the Milky Way," delivered at the Audouze-Truran Conference on Cosmic Evolution, Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, 2000; published in Cosmic Evolution, E. Vangioni-Flam, R. Ferlet, and M. Lemoine, eds., World Scientific, pp. 63-64.

Rogers, A. E. E.; Dudevoir, K. A.; Carter, J. C.; Fanous, B. J.; Kratzenberg, E.; Bania, T. M. 2005, "Deuterium Abundance in the Interstellar Gas of the Galactic Anticenter from the 327 MHz Line" The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 630, Issue 1, pp. L41-L44.