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May 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3077...64f&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, First International Conference on Laboratory Research for Planetary Atmospheres p 64-68 (S
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Atmospheric Composition, Infrared Spectra, Mars Atmosphere, Molecular Relaxation, Planetary Atmospheres, Van Der Waals Forces, Venus Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide, Estimating, Spectrometers, Spectroscopy
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It has been suggested that (CO2)2 and Ar-CO2 are important constituents of the planetary atmospheres of Venus and Mars. Recent results on the laboratory spectroscopy of CO2 containing van der Waals complexes which may be of use in the modeling of the spectra of planetary atmospheres are presented. Sub-Doppler infrared spectra were obtained for (CO2)2, (CO2)3, and rare-gas-CO2 complexes in the vicinity of the CO2 Fermi diad at 2.7 micrometers using a color-center-laser optothermal spectrometer. From the spectroscopic constants the geometries of the complexes have been determined and van der Waals vibrational frequencies have been estimated. The equilibrium configurations are C2h, C3h, and C2v, for (CO2)2, (CO2)3, and the rare-gas-CO2 complexes, respectively. Most of the homogeneous linewidths for the revibrational transitions range from 0.5 to 22 MHz, indicating that predissociation is as much as four orders of magnitude faster than radiative processes for vibrational relaxation in these complexes.
Fraser Gerald T.
Lafferty Walter J.
Pine A. S.
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