José Luis Doménech

Experimental and theoretical study of line mixing in methane spectra. I. The N2-broadened ν3 band at room temperature

Line-mixing effects have been studied in the ν3 band of CH4 perturbed by N2 at room temperature. New measurements have been made and a model is proposed which is not, for the first time, strictly empirical. Three different experimental set ups have been used in order to measure absorption in the 2800–3200 cm−1 spectral region for total pressures in the 0.25–2 and 25–80 atm ranges. Analysis of the spectra demonstrates the significant influence of line mixing on the shape of the Q branch and of the P and R manifolds. A model is proposed which is based on state-to-state collisional transfer rates calculated from the intermolecular potential surface with a semiclassical approach. The line-coupling relaxation matrix is constructed from these data and two additional parameters which are fitted on measured absorption. Comparisons between measurements and spectra computed accounting for and neglecting line mixing are made. They prove the quality of the approach which satisfactory accounts for the effects of press...

Experimental and theoretical study of line mixing in methane spectra. II. Influence of the collision partner (He and Ar) in the v3 IR band

Line mixing effects are studied in the v3 band of CH4 perturbed by Ar and He at room temperature. Experiments have been made in the 2800–3200 cm−1 spectral region using four different setups. They cover a wide range of total densities, including low (0.25–2 atm), medium (25–100 atm), and high (200–1000 atm) pressure conditions. Analysis of the spectra demonstrates that the spectral shapes (of the band, the Q branch, the P and R manifolds,…) are significantly influenced by line mixing. The theoretical approach proposed in the preceding paper is used in order to model and analyze these effects. As done previously, semiclassical state-to-state rates are used together with a few empirical constants. Comparisons between measurements and spectra computed with and without the inclusion of line mixing are made. They prove the quality of the approach which satisfactorily accounts for the effects of pressure and of rotational quantum numbers on the spectral shape. It is shown that collisions with He and Ar lead to ...

Detection of the ammonium ion in space

We report on the detection of a narrow feature at 262816.73 MHz towards Orion and the cold prestellar core B1-bS, that we attribute to the 1(0)-0(0) line of the deuterated Ammonium ion, NH3D+. The observations were performed with the IRAM 30m radio telescope. The carrier has to be a light molecular species as it is the only feature detected over 3.6 GHz of bandwidth. The hyperfine structure is not resolved indicating a very low value for the electric quadrupolar coupling constant of Nitrogen which is expected for NH3D+ as the electric field over the N nucleus is practically zero. Moreover, the feature is right at the predicted frequency for the 1(0)-0(0) transition of the Ammonium ion, 262817(6) MHz (3sigma), using rotational constants derived from new infrared data obtained in our laboratory in Madrid. The estimated column density is 1.1(0.2)e12 cm-2. Assuming a deuterium enhancement similar to that of NH2D, we derive N(NH4+) sim 2.6e13 cm-2, i.e., an abundance for Ammonium of a few 1e(-11).

Raman and infrared linewidths of CO in Ar

We present measurements of Raman linewidths in the fundamental Q branch of CO for mixtures with Ar at temperatures of 77, 195, and 300 K, recorded using an inverse Raman spectrometer. Starting from a recent ab initio potential energy surface, theoretical values of Ar broadening coefficients for CO infrared and Raman lines (isotropic and anisotropic components) at temperatures in the range 77 to 1100 K are calculated via quantum-mechanical methods. The relative merits of the close coupling theoretical results over the coupled states results are underlined. Finally, a comparison of the calculated pressure broadening coefficients is made with the present experimental data as well as with recently available infrared data. There is general agreement between the calculated and measured values of the broadenings for all the temperatures probed. We conclude that the temperature dependence of the infrared and Raman broadening coefficients have been correctly determined theoretically and may be used to test a commo...

Experimental and theoretical study of line mixing in methane spectra. IV. Influence of the temperature and of the band

Line-mixing effects are studied in infrared bands of CH4 perturbed by N2 at various pressures. The effects of temperature are investigated in the ν3 region whereas spectral shapes of the ν2, ν4, and ν3 bands are compared at room temperature. The theoretical approach proposed in preceding papers is used in order to model and analyze the influence of collisions on the spectral shape. All model parameters are now fixed to values determined in the previous studies. Comparisons between measurements and spectra computed with and without the inclusion of line mixing are made. They show that our approach satisfactorily accounts for the effects of temperature, pressure, and of rotational quantum numbers on the absorption by the ν3 band. Furthermore, the effects of collisions on spectra in the ν4 region at room temperature are also correctly calculated. On the other hand, the proposed approach fails in modeling the evolution with increasing pressure of absorption in the spectral range containing the ν2 band. This r...

Infrared diode‐laser spectra of the ν9 and ν11 N–O stretching bands of N2O4

The rotationally resolved jet‐cooled infrared spectra of the b‐type ν9 (b2u) fundamental band at 1757 cm−1 and the a‐type ν11 (b3u) fundamental band at 1261 cm−1 of the N–O stretches of N2O4 have been recorded with a diode laser. The ν9 band was found to be unperturbed, and it was possible to assign nearly 100% of the observed lines with a signal to noise greater than 2. In contrast, most of the Ka states of the ν11 band were found to be strongly perturbed. A large number of strong lines (≊20%) are unassigned and presumably arise from the perturbing state as well as torsional hot band transitions. The rotational analysis yields precise spectroscopic constants for the ground vibrational state which are interpreted in terms of a planar centrosymmetric dimer with a N–N bond length of 1.756(10) A. The observed nuclear‐spin statistical weights and near‐zero inertial defect are consistent with the planar centrosymmetric structure determined in earlier electron‐diffraction studies.

A PARTIALLY CORRELATED STRONG COLLISION MODEL FOR VELOCITY- AND STATE-CHANGING COLLISIONS APPLICATION TO Ar-BROADENED HF ROVIBRATIONAL LINE SHAPE

Abstract High-resolution tunable laser measurements of rovibrational line shapes in Ar-broadened HF [A.S. Pine, J. Chem. Phys. , 1994, 101 , 3444] have shown the need of partially correlated Dicke narrowing models to accurately describe the observed asymmetries. A strong collision model accounting for both velocity- and state-changing mechanisms (VCD) and phase-changing ones (D), is presented. The resulting line shape justifies, on a physical basis, the empirical model previously used to interpret the observed features. The present partially correlated strong collisional model leads to a clearer interpretation of the characteristic parameters determined from the experiment for HF–Ar. Further theoretical calculations and experiments show that the residual discrepancies for the first rovibrational lines cannot be attributed to the speed dependence of the collisional line shape parameters.

Line-mixing effects in N2O Q branches: Model, laboratory, and atmospheric spectra

A model based on the energy corrected sudden approximation is used in order to account for line-mixing effects in N2O Q branches of Σ↔Π bands. The performance of this theoretical approach is demonstrated by comparisons with many (about 70) N2O–N2 and N2O–O2 laboratory spectra recorded in the 5 and 17 μm regions by three instrument setups; the Q branches of the 2ν20e–ν21f (near 579.3 cm−1), ν2 (near 588.8 cm−1), and ν2+ν3 (near 2798.3 cm−1) bands are investigated for different pressures (0.1–2.0 atm) and temperatures (200–300 K). The model is used to generate a set of line-mixing parameters for the calculation of the absorption by the ν2 Q branch under atmospheric conditions. These data are tested by comparisons between computed stratospheric emissions and values measured using a balloon-borne high resolution Fourier transform instrument. The results confirm the need to account for the effects of line mixing and demonstrate the capability of the model to represent the N2O absorption in a region which can b...

NEW ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF 36ArH+ AND 38ArH+ RO-VIBRATIONAL TRANSITIONS BY HIGH RESOLUTION IR ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY

Poster presented at the 23rd International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (2014) held in Bologna (Italy) on September 2-6 th 2014.

Influence of velocity effects on the shape of N2 (and air) broadened H2O lines revisited with classical molecular dynamics simulations

The modeling of the shape of H(2)O lines perturbed by N(2) (and air) using the Keilson-Storer (KS) kernel for collision-induced velocity changes is revisited with classical molecular dynamics simulations (CMDS). The latter have been performed for a large number of molecules starting from intermolecular-potential surfaces. Contrary to the assumption made in a previous study [H. Tran, D. Bermejo, J.-L. Domenech, P. Joubert, R. R. Gamache, and J.-M. Hartmann, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 108, 126 (2007)], the results of these CMDS show that the velocity-orientation and -modulus changes statistically occur at the same time scale. This validates the use of a single memory parameter in the Keilson-Storer kernel to describe both the velocity-orientation and -modulus changes. The CMDS results also show that velocity- and rotational state-changing collisions are statistically partially correlated. A partially correlated speed-dependent Keilson-Storer model has thus been used to describe the line-shape. For this, the velocity changes KS kernel parameters have been directly determined from CMDS, while the speed-dependent broadening and shifting coefficients have been calculated with a semi-classical approach. Comparisons between calculated spectra and measurements of several lines of H(2)O broadened by N(2) (and air) in the ν(3) and 2ν(1) + ν(2) + ν(3) bands for a wide range of pressure show very satisfactory agreement. The evolution of non-Voigt effects from Doppler to collisional regimes is also presented and discussed.