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

Deuterium in the Orion Nebula and other nebulae

Cesarsky, Diego A. 1973, "A Search for Deuterium Recombination-Line Emission from Orion A," ApJ, 184:397-400

Traub, W. A.; Carleton, N. P.; Hegyi, D. J. 1974, "Search for Deuterium in Orion and Detection of High-Velocity Features," The Astrophysical Journal, 190: L81-L84, 1974 June 1

Laurent, C.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; York, D. G. 1979, "The ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in interstellar space. IV - The lines of sight to Delta, Epsilon, and Iota Orionis," ApJ, Part 1, vol. 229, May 1, 1979, p. 923-941.

Bluhm, H.; Marggraf, O.; de Boer, K. S.; Richter, P.; Heber, U. 1999, "ORFEUS II echelle spectra: deuterium and molecular hydrogen in the ISM towards BD +39 3226,"Astron. Astrophysics. 352, 287-296 (1999)

Bertoldi, Frank; Timmermann, Ralf; Rosenthal, Dirk; Drapatz, Siegfried; Wright, Christopher 1999, "Detection of HD in the Orion molecular outflow," Astron. Astrophys. 346, 267-277 (1999)

Hébrard, G.; Péquignot, D.; Walsh, J. R.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; Ferlet, R. 2000, "Revealing deuterium Balmer lines in H II regions with VLT-UVES,"A&A , 34, L31-L35(2000).

Hébrard, G.; Vidal-Madjar, A; Walsh, J. R; Ferlet, R. 2000, "Detection of deuterium Balmer lines in the Orion Nebula," A&A. 354, L79-L82 (2000)

O'Dell, C. R.; Ferland, G. J.; Henry, W. J. 2001, "Measurement and Interpretation of deuterium-line emission in the Orion Nebula," The Astrophysical Journal, 556: 203-214, 2001 July 20

Hébrard, G.; Péquignot, D.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; Walsh, J. R. 2002, "First detection of the deuterium Balmer Series," Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 50, Issues 12-13

Hébrard, G.; Péquignot, D.; Walsh, J. R.; Morisset, C.; Vidal-Madjar, A.; Ferlet, R. 2003, "Upper Limit to the Deuterium Abundance in Planetary Nebulae," Planetary Nebulae: Their Evolution and Role in the Universe, Proceedings of the 209th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held at Canberra, Australia, 19-23 November, 2001. Edited by Sun Kwok, Michael Dopita, and Ralph Sutherland. Published on behalf of the IAU by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2003., p.371

Crighton, N. H. M.; Webb, J. K.; Ortiz-Gil, A.; Fernéndez-Soto, A. 2004, "Deuterium/hydrogen in a new Lyman limit absorption system at z= 3.256 towards PKS1937-1009," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Online Early