A search for vibrationally excited H2O at 68 GHz

Details A search for vibrationally excited H2O at 68 GHz A search for vibrationally excited H2O at 68 GHz

Jan 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991apj...367..168p&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 367, Jan. 20, 1991, p. 168-172.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Interstellar Gas, Molecular Clouds, Molecular Excitation, Molecular Oscillations, Water Vapor, Infrared Radiation, Line Spectra, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Vibrational Spectra

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Water vapor may be one of the most abundant constituents of shocked molecular clouds. The nonequilibrium distribution of population among its rotational energy states requires the observation of a multiplicity of transitions to constrain its abundance and excitation state. Flux limits are presented for emission due to the (010) 4(14) - 3(21) rotational transition of ortho-H2O at 67.804 GHz in several nebular and stellar sources. Upper limits for a beam-averaged column density of H2O in its nu2 vibrational manifold are derived for Orion BN-KL. Constraints placed by these observations on an internal source of infrared radiation in the Orion shock are discussed.

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