Chapter 7: Carbon Stars II - PAHs, carbon dust and diamonds

``Ours the diamond mines of stars''
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1917)

• UIR bands and the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
  • Review of the unidentified infrared bands
  • Meteoritic Evidence
• UIR bands in Carbon Star Spectra
  • Why Look at Carbon Stars?
  • Can PAHs form in C-rich AGB star environments?
  • Target Selection
  • The Investigation
  • Discussion
• An Evolutionary Sequence
• Diamonds in the sky
  • Diamonds in meteorites
  • Diamonds in the interstellar medium
  • Sources of meteoritic diamonds
  • Theoretical models of diamond formation in astrophysical environments
  • Spectra of meteoritic diamonds

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