Kinetic curves of the studied PAH cations and their fragments: (a) Pyr⁺, (b) H₆ -Pyr⁺, (c) MePyr⁺, (d) EtPyr⁺, (e) Cor⁺, (f) EtCor⁺ (MeCor⁺ is shown in Fig. 4a). For each figure, the top panel shows the main channels while the bottom panel is a zoom on the minor channels. The solid curves correspond to the fitting functions that were derived with the procedure described in Sect. 2.4. The derived photofragmentation maps are shown in Figs. 6, 8, and 9.