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The Berkeley Program on Molecules of Astrophysical Interest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Sumner P. Davis
Sumner P. Davis*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720, USA

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A systematic program of laboratory analyses of selected molecular spectra of astrophysical interest started in 1958 and continues to the present time. The program includes production of spectral atlases, tabulations of spectral lines, analyses, calculations of excitation energies and molecular parameters, measurements of radiative lifetimes, and determinations of transition strengths. Work has been completed or is in progress on the spectra of ArH+, C2, carbon clusters, CN, CS, CaCl, CaH, CaS, FeD, FeH, HgH, HgD, InI, LaO, LaS, OD, OH, SH, Si2, SiC2, TiCl, TiO, TiO+, VO, YS, ZrCl, ZrO, and ZrS. The basic needs for astronomically useful data have not changed, but laboratory and analysis methods have become more sophisticated in order to cope with ever greater demands for consistency, accuracy, and breadth of information. The Fourier transform spectrometer and computer codes for analyses have enhanced our ability to satisfy some of these demands.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 146: Molecules in the Stellar Environment , 1994 , pp. 397 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1994

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