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                            García-Hernández, D. A.; Kameswara Rao, N.; Lambert, D. L.
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                                    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 729, Issue 2, article id. 126 (2011).
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                                    The hydrogen-poor, helium-rich, and carbon-rich character of the gas
around R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars has been suggested to be a site
for formation of C60 molecules. This suggestion is not
supported by observations reported here showing that infrared
transitions of C60 are not seen in a large sample of RCB
stars observed with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space
Telescope. The infrared C60 transitions are seen, however, in
emission and blended with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features
in spectra of DY Cen and possibly also of V854 Cen, the two least
hydrogen-deficient (hydrogen deficiency of only ~10-100) RCB stars. The
speculation is offered that C60 (and the PAHs) in the
moderately H-deficient circumstellar envelopes may be formed by the
decomposition of hydrogenated amorphous carbon but fullerene formation
is inefficient in the highly H-deficient environments of most RCBs.
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