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Collisional rate coefficients for astrophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2024

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Alexandre Faure*
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Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG F-38000 Grenoble,France
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email: alexandre.faure@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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Abstract

In the interstellar medium, inelastic collisions are so rare that they cannot maintain a local thermodynamical equilibrium (LTE). Atomic and molecular populations therefore do not follow a simple Boltzmann distribution and non-LTE spectra are the rule rather than the exception. In such conditions, accurate state-to-state collisional data are crucial for a quantitative interpretation of spectra. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in quantum calculations of inelastic cross sections for a variety of targets, types of transitions and projectiles. For a few benchmark species, detailed comparisons between theory and experiment were also carried out at the state-to-state level and in the quantum regime. In this article, we highlight such comparisons for three important molecules: CO, H2O and CH+. We also describe current computational efforts to extend these advances to ever larger targets, new transition types, and new environments (e.g. stellar envelopes or cometary atmospheres).

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Molecular datamolecular processesscattering
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S371: Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly: Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century , August 2022 , pp. 123 - 132
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