2008A&A...492..257F -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 492, 257-264 (2008/12-2)
Collisional excitation of water in warm astrophysical media. I. Rate coefficients for rovibrationally excited states.
FAURE A. and JOSSELIN E.
Abstract (from CDS):
The interpretation of water line emission from infrared and submillimetre observations requires a detailed knowledge of collisional rate coefficients over a wide range of levels and temperatures. We attempt to determine rotational and rovibrational rate coefficients for H2O colliding with both H2 and electrons in warm, molecular gas. Pure rotational rates are derived by extrapolating published data using a new method partly based on the information (phase space) theory of Levine and co-workers. Ro-vibrational rates are obtained using vibrational relaxation data available in the literature and by assuming a complete decoupling of rotation and vibration. Rate coefficients were obtained for the lowest 824 ro-vibrational levels of H2O in the temperature range 200-5000K. Our data is expected to be accurate to within a factor of ∼5 for the highest rates (>10–11cm3/s). Smaller rates, including the ro-vibrational ones, should be generally accurate to within an order of magnitude. As a first application of this data, we show that vibrationally excited water emission observed in evolved stars is expected to be at least partly excited by means of collisions.
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molecular data - molecular processes - ISM: molecules
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