Laboratory Spectrum of the 111-202 Rotational Transition of CH2

Details Laboratory Spectrum of the 111-202 Rotational Transition of CH2 Laboratory Spectrum of the 111-202 Rotational Transition of CH2

Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...596.1356m&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 596, Issue 2, pp. 1356-1362.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Subject Headings: Astrochemistry, Ism: Molecules, Methods: Laboratory, Molecular Data- Radio Lines: Ism

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We have studied the NKaKc=111-202 rotational transition of the ortho-methylene radical CH2 in its ground vibrational and electronic (X3B1) state. Centered near 943 GHz, this pure rotational transition is split by fine-structure interactions into three components, which lie at 931, 945, and 956 GHz and are characterized by the quantum numbers J=1-2, 2-3, and 0-1, respectively. In turn, each fine-structure component breaks up into a number of hyperfine components. A total of eight new hyperfine components were measured to a precision of about 20 kHz and analyzed as part of a global data set with previously known data at lower frequencies. Since the 111-202 transition is energetically rather low (110 K) compared with the previously measured 404-313 interstellar transition, it should be more widely observable in interstellar clouds, either through an atmospheric window from the ground or, in the near future, with SOFIA and the Herschel Space Observatory.

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