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High-j Rotational Lines Of Hco+ And Its Isotopologues Measured By Using Evenson-type Tunable Fir Spectrometer

Amano, Takayoshi

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Title
High-j Rotational Lines Of Hco+ And Its Isotopologues Measured By Using Evenson-type Tunable Fir Spectrometer
Author(s)
Amano, Takayoshi
Contributor(s)
  • Matsushima, Fusakazu
  • Moriwaki, Yoshiki
  • Suzuki, Mari
  • Miyamoto, Tatsuya
  • Oishi, Ryo
Issue Date
2014-06-18
Keyword(s)
Mini-symposium: Beyond the Mass-to-Charge Ratio: Spectroscopic Probes of the Structures of Ions
Date of Ingest
  • 2014-09-17T16:55:33Z
  • 2015-04-14T18:37:45Z
Abstract
Frequencies of high-$J$ rotational lines of HCO$^+$ and DCO$^+$ have been measured precisely by using an Evenson-type tunable far-infrared spectrometer in Toyama. The spectrometer (sometimes called TuFIR in short) is based on synthesizing terahertz radiation from two mid-infrared CO$_2$ laser lines and one microwave source. The HCO$^+$ ions are produced by discharging a CO, H$_2$ (or D$_2$), and Ar mixture in an extended negative glow discharge cell cooled with liquid nitrogen. The low-$J$ rotational lines have been extensively studied. Information on the higher-$J$ levels have been obtained by observing the vibration-rotation bands. More recently high precision infrared measurements have been made by observing the Lamb dips.\footnote{B. M. Siller, J. N. Hodges, A. J. Perry, and B. J. McCall, {\em J. Phys. Chem. A.} {\bf 117}, 10034(2013)} We focus our efforts to measuring the high-$J$ rotational lines. Currently we have observed the lines $J+1 \leftarrow J$ ($J$=7-19, 21) for HCO$^+$, and $J+1 \leftarrow J$ ($J$=11, 13-14, 16-24) for DCO$^+$. An additional isotopologue, H$^{13}$CO$^+$ is now under investigation. From the analysis of the intensity of each rotational line, we estimate the rotational temperature to be as low as 120K. Apparently, due to this low temperature, it seems to be difficult to extend the measurements to yet higher-$J$ lines.
Publisher
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
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Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
English
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50940
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2014.WG11
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Copyright 2014 by the authors. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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