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Pure CH4 (1) Ice at 30 K

Description
Sample Type Ice
Components CH4
Ratio 1
Substrate CsI
Reference Temperature 30 K
Wavenumber (cm⁻¹) 1000.2 - 3699.7
Wavelength (µm) 2.703 - 9.998

Methane (CH4) ice deposited at 10 K onto a cesium iodide (CsI) substrate, then warmed up to 30 K, and held at 30 K during spectroscopic measurements.

The real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex index of refraction were determined using optical measurements done at a temperature of 30 K, by infrared transmission spectroscopy from 3700 to 1000 cm⁻¹ with a resolution of 1 cm⁻¹ across the CH4 features and 2 cm⁻¹ across the rest of the spectrum.

More information can be found in the publication and on the OCdb contributor's page.

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References

Any use of this data should recognize the parent publication(s):

Hudgins, D. M., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J. and Tielens, A. G. G. M. (1993) 'Mid- and Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Ices: Optical Constants and Integrated Absorbances', The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 86, pp. 713-870.

https://doi.org/10.1086/191796

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