Unidentified infrared bands do not correlate with C O ratio in planetary nebulae

Unidentified infrared bands do not correlate with C O ratio in planetary nebulae by Frederic Zagury. on Monday 21 November The concrete evidence adduced to support the widely held idea that unidentified infrared bands (UIBs) are enhanced in carbon-rich planetary nebulae (PNe) is a remarkable UIB 7.7 {\mu}m versus C/O ratio correlation plot for six PNe, obtained from air-born observations and published in 1986 by M. Cohen and coworkers. However, the space-born data presented by Cohen & Barlow in 2005 undercut this correlation, and I show that the larger dataset they provide disproves a specific link between UIBs and carbon abundance in PNe. It also follows from these data that interstellar UIB carriers cannot originate from the atmosphere of carbon-rich PNe. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11021v1