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On the Identification of Mm-Wavelength U-Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

B. E. Turner*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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During the past five years, a total of about 180 U-lines has been observed by the author and others in the 70-115 GHz region in the prominent molecular clouds Sgr B2 and Ori (KL). A program to identify the carriers of these lines has been undertaken. A computer code, incorporating nine different centrifugal distortion Hamiltonians, generates spectra of asymmetric rotors from given rotational and centrigugal-distortion constants. Spectra have been computed for ∼550 molecules that are considered potentially interesting astrophysically. Molecules were selected from Landolt-Bornstein Volumes IV (1967) and VI (1974) on Molecular Constants, and from the spectroscopic literature (1973 - present).

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