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Carbon monoxide is a simple molecule present in many astrophysical environments, and collisional excitation rate coefficients due to the dominant collision partners are necessary to accurately predict spectral line intensities and extract…
The Diep and Johnson (DJ) H$_2$-H$_2$ potential energy surface (PES) obtained from the first principles [P. Diep, K. Johnson, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 3480 (2000); 114, 222 (2000)], has been adjusted through appropriate rotation of the…
New quantum scattering calculations for rotational deexcitation transitions of CO induced by H collisions using two CO-H potential energy surfaces (PESs) from Shepler et al. (2007) are reported. State-to-state rate coefficients are computed…
State-selected total cross sections and thermal rate coefficients are computed for the HD + $ortho$-/$para$-H$_2$ rotational energy transfer collision at low temperatures: 2 K $\lesssim$ T $\lesssim$ 300 K. A modified H$_2$-H$_2$ potential…
Quantum-mechanical close-coupling calculations for state-to-state cross sections and thermal rates are reported for H2+H2 collisions. Two recently developed potential energy surfaces (PES) for the H2-H2 system are applied, namely, the…
Cross sections for the rotational (de)excitation of CO by ground state para- and ortho-H_2 are obtained using quantum scattering calculations for collision energies between 1 and 520 cm^{-1}. A new CO-H_2 potential energy surface is…
We report new elastic and inelastic cross sections for O($^3P$)+CO$_2$ scattering at collision energies from 0.03 to 5 eV, of major importance to O escape from Mars, Venus, and CO$_2$-rich atmospheres. The cross sections were calculated…
Rate coefficients for state-to-state rotational transitions in CO induced by both para- and ortho-H$_2$ collisions are presented. The results were obtained using the close-coupling method and the coupled-states approximation, with the…
Motivated by recent observations with Herschel/PACS, and the availability of new rate coefficients for the collisional excitation of CO (Yang et al. 2010), the excitation of warm astrophysical CO is revisited with the use of numerical and…
We report the first full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) and quantum mechanical close-coupling calculations for scattering of SiO due to H$_2$. The full-dimensional interaction potential surface was computed using the explicitly…
Collisions between hot hydrogen atoms and CO$_2$ play a central role in energy transfer and atmospheric escape in CO$_2$-rich planetary atmospheres. We present quantum mechanical $j_z$-conserving coupled-states calculations of…
Full-dimensional quantum scattering calculations are reported for ro-vibrational transitions in HD+HD collisions using a highly accurate interaction potential for the H$_2$-H$_2$ system. Several near-resonant ro-vibrational transitions are…
Collisional (de-)excitation of H$_{2}$ by helium plays an important role in the thermal balance and chemistry of various astrophysical environments, making accurate rate coefficients essential for the interpretation of observations of the…
Rate coefficient for state-to-state rotational transitions in H+ collision with CS has been obtained using accurate quantum dynamical close-coupling calculations to interpret microwave astronomical observations. Accurate three dimensional…
Rate coefficients for rotational transitions in H_2 induced by H_2 impact are presented. Extensive quantum mechanical coupled-channel calculations based on a recently published (H_2)_2 potential energy surface were performed. The potential…
A close coupling quantum-mechanical calculation is performed for rotational energy transfer in a HD+HD collision at very low energy, down to the ultracold temperatures: $T \sim 10^{-8}$ K. A global six-dimensional H$_2$-H$_2$ potential…
In light of its ubiquitous presence in the interstellar gas, the chemistry and reactivity of the HCO+ ion requires special attention. The availability of up-to-date collisional data between this ion and the most abundant perturbing species…
Cross sections have been computed for rotational transitions of H2, induced by collisions with H atoms, using a recent H - H2 potential calculated by Mielke et al. [1]. These results are compared with those obtained with earlier potentials.…
We report quantum-mechanical close-coupling calculations for rotational state resolved cross sections for p-H2+HD collisions. The low temperature limit of p-H2+HD is investigated, which is of significant astrophysical interest in regard to…
Rotational transitions in molecular hydrogen collisions are computed. The two most recently developed potential energy surfaces for the H2-H2 system are used from the following works: 1) A.I. Boothroyd, P.G. Martin, W.J. Keogh, M.J.…