Wave nature of delocalized electrons in defective hydrocarbons

Wave nature of delocalized electrons in defective hydrocarbons

IR light from the Orion Nebula in the Spitzer telescope survey. Heated by starlight dust emitted at wavelengths of 8 and 5.8 microns (red and orange)

A new analysis shows that a number of infrared band peaks, called cosmic unidentified infrared radiation, appear due to the undulating behavior of delocalized electrons in hydrocarbon compounds. The main point is that they pass through structural transformations caused by the absorption of light. Transformations are denoted by defects that affect the wave motion of delocalized electrons.

The study proves that the spectral characteristics of cosmic rays can be explained integrally, by describing the motion of electrons around structural defects.

For a long time, scientists argued about the phenomenon of cosmic dust. No one could say for sure whether unidentified IR radiation is universal. For dozens of years, cosmic rays have been explained by flat molecules of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons floating freely in space. But more and more information is coming in that they appear in the same amorphous hydrocarbons of star dust collected from meteorites. But it is still not clear what the average chemical structure of the dust compounds responsible for the phenomenon will be. It is believed that compounds in space place aromatic carbon in the form of fused hexagonal rings, similar to chains. These particles are heated by the absorption of stellar rays, and later cooled by infrared energy. In addition, the absorption of a star's luminescence can cause structural deformations.

The new analysis is based on the theory of the functioning of the density. It shows that delocalized electron vibrations increase the vibrations of aromatic carbon chains. Now it becomes clear that the defects are the natural result of the treatment of dust with starlight, which is why a certain physical structure is created.

This is an important study revealing the fundamental understanding of the chemical structure of the compounds involved. Responsible compounds for cosmic rays are amorphous structures represented by disordered positions of aromatic and aliphatic components.

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