Deep, Broadband Spectral Line Surveys of Molecule-rich Interstellar Clouds

Electronic Spectral Line Shape of a Diatomic Molecule

The electronic absorption spectral line shape of a diatomic molecule with harmonic potential curves is calculated using the time correlation function formalism. Both the equilibrium shift and the frequency shift of the two linking electronic states ate taken into account. The spectrum is also calculated using the cumulated expansion which is related to the correlation function of the time-d...

electronic spectral line shape of a diatomic molecule

the electronic absorption spectral line shape of a diatomic molecule with harmonic potential curves is calculated using the time correlation function formalism. both the equilibrium shift and the frequency shift of the two linking electronic states ate taken into account. the spectrum is also calculated using the cumulated expansion which is related to the correlation function of the time-depen...

Extragalactic molecular clouds and chemistry of diffuse interstellar clouds

Zusammenfassung Since the discovery of a cold molecular component of the interstellar medium in the 1970s, it has been realized that most of the dark clouds are actually molecular clouds, consisting mainly of molecular hydrogen and some amount of dust and other molecules. Nowadays, molecular clouds are recognized as places of star-formation in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Therefore, studie...

Selective Absorption of Starlight by Interstellar Clouds.

Enigma of H3 + in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds

1. INTRODUCTION H 3 + is of fundamental importance to interstellar chemistry both because it is a hydrogenic species (and >90% of all nuclei in the universe are hydrogen nuclei; see Figure 1) and because it serves as the universal protonator, initiating a chain of ion-neutral reactions that is responsible for the formation of most interstellar molecules. The chemistry of H 3 + in dense (molecul...