Talk:Lyman–Werner photons

"Solomon Process"
Solomon, P.M. 1965, personal communication as cited by Field, G.B., Somerville, W.B. and Dressler, K, in "Hydrogen Molecules in Astronomy", Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Volume 4, 1966 207-244 https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.aa.04.090166.001231

"Two-step photodissociation (the Solomon process):H2 + γ → H^*_2 → 2H (Stecher & Williams 1967).The first step involves excitation to either theB^1Σ^+_u or C^1Π_u excited electronic states, withthreshold energies of 11.15eV and 12.26eV respectively.This is followed by decay to some vibrational level of the groundelectronic state. A fraction of these decays will be to thevibrational continuum of the ground state, resulting in dissociation.A number of rotational and vibrational states ofB^1Σ^+_u and C^1Π_u are available from the ground state by absorption below 13.6 eV; the associated spectral lines belongto the Lyman and Werner band systems." https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005576 "On the photodissociation of H2 by the first stars" 50.0.193.12 (talk) 04:36, 14 April 2024 (UTC)