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In light of its ubiquitous presence in the interstellar gas, the chemistry and reactivity of the HCO+ ion requires special attention. The availability of up-to-date collisional data between this ion and the most abundant perturbing species in the interstellar medium is a critical resource in order to derive reliable values of its molecular abundance from astronomical observations. This work intends to provide improved scattering parameters for the HCO+ and He collisional system. We have tested the accuracy of explicitly correlated coupled-cluster methods for mapping the short- and long-range multi-dimensional potential energy surface of atom-ion systems. A validation of the methodology employed for the calculation of the potential well has been obtained from the comparison with experimentally derived bound-state spectroscopic parameters. Finally, by solving the close-coupling scattering equations, we have derived the pressure broadening and shift coefficients for the first six rotational transitions of HCO+ as well as inelastic state-to-state transition rates up to j = 5 in the 5-100 K temperature interval.
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Collisional excitation of light hydrides is important to fully understand the complex chemical and physical processes of atmospheric and astrophysical environments. Here, we focus on the NH(X3Σ-)-Ar van der Waals system. First, we have calculated a new three-dimensional Potential Energy Surface (PES), which explicitly includes the NH bond vibration. We have carried out the ab initio calculations of the PES employing the open-shell single- and double-excitation couple cluster method with noniterative perturbational treatment of the triple excitations. To achieve a better accuracy, we have first obtained the energies using the augmented correlation-consistent aug-cc-pVXZ (X = T, Q, 5) basis sets and then we have extrapolated the final values to the complete basis set limit. We have also studied the collisional excitation of NH(X3Σ-)-Ar at the close-coupling level, employing our new PES. We calculated collisional excitation cross sections of the fine-structure levels of NH by Ar for energies up to 3000 cm-1. After thermal average of the cross sections, we have then obtained the rate coefficients for temperatures up to 350 K. The propensity rules between the fine-structure levels are in good agreement with those of similar collisional systems, even though they are not as strong and pronounced as for lighter systems, such as NH-He. The final theoretical values are also compared with the few available experimental data.
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The high-resolution infrared spectrum of monodeuterated diacetylene has been recorded in the 450-1100 cm(-1) spectral region by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Seven new bands have been identified: the ν3 fundamental (C-C stretch), and the ν8 + ν9, ν7 + ν8, 2ν7, 2ν8, ν8 + ν9 - ν9, and ν6 + ν9 - ν9 combination, overtone, and hot bands. The assigned transitions, together with those previously reported for the fundamental bands [F. Tamassia, L. Bizzocchi, C. Degli Esposti, L. Dore, M. Di Lauro, L. Fusina, M. Villa, and E. Canè, Astron. Astrophys. 549, A38 (2013)], form a comprehensive data set which comprises more than 2500 ro-vibrational transitions, and involves all singly and most doubly excited vibrational states of DC4H lying below 1000 cm(-1). Rotational and vibrational l-type resonance effects among the sub-levels of excited bending states were considered in the analysis, which also included a careful treatment of the various anharmonic interactions coupling many vibrational states lying above 600 cm(-1). Reliable and unambiguous spectroscopic parameters were obtained for each investigated state, including the rotational and centrifugal distortion constants Bv and Dv, the l-type doubling parameter qt, the anharmonicity constants xL(89), xL(69), and the vibrational l-type terms r89, r69 for the v8 = v9 = 1 and v6 = v9 = 1 bend-bend combination states.
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Pure rotational transitions of silicon monosulfide ((28)Si(32)S) and its rare isotopic species have been observed in their ground as well as vibrationally excited states by employing Fourier transform microwave (FTMW) spectroscopy of a supersonic molecular beam at centimetre wavelengths (13-37 GHz) and by using long-path absorption spectroscopy at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths (127-925 GHz). The latter measurements include 91 transition frequencies for (28)Si(32)S, (28)Si(33)S, (28)Si(34)S, (29)Si(32)S and (30)Si(32)S in upsilon = 0, as well as 5 lines for (28)Si(32)S in upsilon = 1, with rotational quantum numbers J''< or = 52. The centimetre-wave measurements include more than 300 newly recorded lines. Together with previous data they result in almost 600 transitions (J'' = 0 and 1) from all twelve possible isotopic species, including (29)Si(36)S and (30)Si(36)S, which have fractional abundances of about 7 x 10(-6) and 4.5 x 10(-6), respectively. Rotational transitions were observed from upsilon = 0 for the least abundant isotopic species to as high as upsilon = 51 for the main species. Owing to the high spectral resolution of the FTMW spectrometer, hyperfine structure from the nuclear electric quadrupole moment of (33)S was resolved for species containing this isotope, as was much smaller nuclear spin-rotation splitting for isotopic species involving (29)Si. By combining the measurements here with previously published microwave and infrared data in one global fit, an improved set of spectroscopic parameters for SiS has been derived which include several terms describing the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. With this parameter set, highly accurate rotational frequencies for this important astronomical molecule can now be predicted well into the terahertz region.
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The submillimeter-wave rotational spectra of the unstable phosphorus-bearing molecules HCCCP (phosphabutadiyne) and NCCP (C-cyanophosphaethyne) have been investigated in selected frequency regions between 490 and 815 GHz using the Cologne Terahertz Spectrometer. Both molecules were studied in their ground vibrational states. Additionally, vibrational satellites within the bending states v(4) = 1 and v(5) = 1 were recorded for NCCP. Furthermore, the ground state rotational spectra of the (13)C and (15)N isotopomers of NCCP were detected in natural abundance. The new measurements allowed us to evaluate the sextic centrifugal distortion constants for each isotopomer and vibrational state investigated. The pyrolysis reactions, through which HCCCP and NCCP were produced in situ, also yielded phosphaethyne, HCP, as a by-product. Some transitions of HCP and DCP were recorded in their ground vibrational states along with v(2) = 1 vibrational satellites of the former. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
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The rotational spectra of the unstable HCCCP molecule have been investigated in the millimeter-wave region for the main excited vibrational states which lie below 1000 cm(-1), namely nu(4) (C&bond;C stretch), nu(5) (HCC bend), nu(6) (CCC bend), nu(7) (CCP bend), 2nu(6), 2nu(7), 3nu(7), 4nu(7), nu(5) + nu(7), and nu(6) + nu(7). l-type resonance effects have been taken into account in the analysis of the spectra, so that the values of the anharmonicity constants x(L(66)), x(L(77)), x(L(57)), and x(L(67)) could be determined. The anharmonic interactions which couple the nu(4) state with nu(6) + nu(7), 2nu(6), and 4nu(7) have been also considered, yielding the unperturbed value of the alpha(4) vibration-rotation coupling constant. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
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FT infrared spectra of BrCN have been recorded in the region of the nu(2) band near 340 cm(-1), the nu(1) band near 580 cm(-1), and the 2nu(2) band near 690 cm(-1) with a resolution between 2.9 and 4.7 x 10(-3) cm(-1). The vibrational levels (01(1)0), (10(0)0), (02(0)0), (02(2)0), (11(1)0), and (20(0)0) have been analyzed employing cold bands, hot bands, and new millimeter-wave transitions. Band-by-band polynomial analyses and a combined fit of all data relevant to the 2v(1) + v(2) = 2 polyad levels have been performed. The latter fit considered l-resonance interactions between the (02(0)0), e and (02(2)0), e levels and Fermi resonance between the two Sigma states (10(0)0) and (02(0)0). Altogether about 1000 pieces of data up to J = 100 were fitted for each of the two isotopic species with rms of the residuals of 2-8 x 10(-4) cm(-1) for the infrared and 10-120 kHz for the pure rotational data. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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The rotational spectra of (32)S(35)Cl(2), (32)S(35)Cl(37)Cl, (32)S(37)Cl(2), and (34)S(35)Cl(2) in their ground vibrational states, as well as those of (32)S(35)Cl(2) and (32)S(35)Cl(37)Cl in their nu(2) and 2nu(2) excited states, have been studied in selected frequency regions between 100 and 370 GHz. Transitions involving a large range of quantum numbers have been observed, so that precise rotational and quartic centrifugal distortion constants could be determined for each of the spectra investigated. The complete set of sextic distortion constants was also obtained for the most abundant isotopomer in its ground vibrational state. The newly determined rotational constants of (34)S(35)Cl(2) and (32)S(37)Cl(2) allowed us to calculate the complete r(s) structure of sulfur dichloride using both single- and double-isotopic substitution methods. The quadratic force field has been refined using a larger set of quartic distortion constants and inertial defects. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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The nu3 fundamental band (C-N stretch) and four associated hot bands (01(1)1-01(1)0, 10(0)1-10(0)0, 02(0)1-02(0)0, and 02(2)1-02(2)0) of natural 79/81Br12C14N have been recorded and analyzed in the 4.8-µm region using an FTIR spectrometer. Analyses of the same hot bands, previously recorded using a diode laser spectrometer, are also presented for the 13C and 15N isotopically labeled species. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
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