Molecular excitation in the interstellar medium: Recent advances in collisional, radiative, and chemical processes

E Roueff, F Lique - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Our main knowledge about astrophysical environments relies on radiative spectra.
Absorption studies require background sources that are located hapharzadly in …

Molecular ions in L1544. II. The ionization degree

P Caselli, CM Walmsley, A Zucconi… - The Astrophysical …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
The maps presented in Paper I are here used to infer the variation of the column densities of
HCO+, DCO+, N 2 H+, and N 2 D+ as a function of distance from the dust peak. These …

An accelerated Monte Carlo method to solve two-dimensional radiative transfer and molecular excitation

MR Hogerheijde, FFS van der Tak - arXiv preprint astro-ph/0008169, 2000 - arxiv.org
We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and
excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells …

BASECOL2012: A collisional database repository and web service within the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC)

ML Dubernet, MH Alexander, YA Ba… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
The BASECOL2012 database is a repository of collisional data and a web service within the
Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC, http://www. vamdc. eu). It contains rate …

Rotational excitation of HCO+ by H2

DR Flower - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Cross-sections and rate coefficients have been calculated for rotational transitions between
levels J≤ 20 of HCO+, induced by collisions with ground state (J= 0) para-H2. Results were …

[HTML][HTML] The Plateau de Bure survey of galactic lambda3mm HCO^+^ absorption toward compact extragalactic continuum sources.

R Lucas, H Liszt - Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 307, p. 237, 1996 - adsabs.harvard.edu
We have observed galactic λ3mm HCO^+^ absorption along 30 lines of sight toward
compact extragalactic mm-wave continuum sources, using the Plateau de Bure …

A chemical study of the photodissociation region NGC 7023

A Fuente, J Martin-Pintado, J Cernicharo… - XXVlllth Rencontre de …, 1994 - books.google.com
To investigate the effects of the UV radiation on the chemistry of nitrogenated molecules, we
have carried out an observational study of the reflection nebula NGC 7023. We have …

New protostellar collapse candidates: an hco+ survey of the class 0 sources

EM Gregersen, NJ Evans II, S Zhou… - The Astrophysical …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
We have observed 23 class 0 sources in the HCO+ J= 4–3 and 3–2 lines. The mean
bolometric temperature of the 16 sources with well-determined values is 44 K, and the mean …

Rotational relaxation of HCO+ and DCO+ by collision with H2

O Denis-Alpizar, T Stoecklin, A Dutrey… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The HCO+ and DCO+ molecules are commonly used as tracers in the interstellar medium.
Therefore, accurate rotational rate coefficients of these systems with He and H2 are crucial …

BASECOL2023 scientific content

ML Dubernet, C Boursier, O Denis-Alpizar… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The global context of making numerous data produced by researchers available
requires collecting and organising the data, assigning meaningful metadata, and presenting …