Utilizando modelos semiempíricos de los espectros de fotoabsorción de varios fullerenos individuales (C_80, C_240, C_320 y C_540) predecimos transiciones en la región de la banda difusa más intensa del medio interestelar a 4430 A que podrían explicar su origen, hasta ahora desconocido. Estos modelos también presentan una alta densidad de transiciones en el ultravioleta que reproducen el denominado "bump" a 2175 A en la curva de extinción del medio interestelar (Iglesias-Groth 2004). Parece que los fullerenos podrían ser responsables de dos de los mayores rasgos de la absorción interestelar. Haciendo uso de las secciones eficaces teóricas y de los datos empíricos estimamos que la abundancia de fullerenos es de 0.05 moléculas por millón de átomos de hidrógeno en regiones del medio interestelar con índice de exceso de color E(B-V)~ 1.0.
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