We present a study of elemental abundances in a sample of 13 blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies, using the 10– 37 mhigh-resolution spectra obtained with Spitzer IRS.We derive the abundances of neon and sulfur for our sample using the infrared fine-structure lines probing regions which may be obscured by dust in the optical and compare our results with similar infrared studies of starburst galaxi...

Single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) spectra from liquids having low vapor pressures, especially mineral acids, are exceptionally rich. During SBSL from aqueous sulfuric acid containing dissolved neon, rovibronic emission spectra reveal vibrationally hot sulfur monoxide (SO; Tv = 2100 K) that is also rotationally cold (Tr = 290 K). In addition to SO, excited neon atom emission gives an estimat...

The Galileo probe showed that Jupiter's atmosphere is severely depleted in neon compared to protosolar values. We show via ab initio simulations of the partitioning of neon between hydrogen-helium phases that the observed depletion can be explained by the sequestration of neon into helium-rich droplets within the postulated hydrogen-helium immiscibility layer of the planets interior. We also de...

A study of the energy accommodation of neon colliding with a crystalline self-assembled 1-decanethiol monolayer adsorbed on Au(111) is presented. The intensity and velocity dependencies of the scattered neon as a function of incident angle and energy were experimentally measured. Scattering calculations show good agreement with these results, which allows us to examine the detailed dynamics of ...

We Coulomb explode argon and neon dimers, trimers, and tetramers by multiple ionization in an ultrashort 800 nm laser pulse. By measuring all momentum vectors of the singly charged ions in coincidence, we determine the ground state nuclear wave function of the dimer, trimer, and tetramer. Furthermore we retrieve the bond angles of the trimer in position space by applying a classical numerical s...