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Comprehensive line lists for phosphorus monoxide ($^{31}$P$^{16}$O) and phosphorus monosulphide ($^{31}$P$^{32}$S) in their $X$ $^2\Pi$ electronic ground state are presented. The line lists are based on new ab initio potential energy (PEC),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Laxmi Prajapat , Pawel Jagoda , Lorenzo Lodi , Maire N. Gorman , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

An accurate line list for calcium oxide is presented covering transitions between all bound ro-vibronic levels from the five lowest electronic states \X, \Ap, \A, \astate, and \bstate. The ro-vibronic energies and corresponding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-05 Sergei N. Yurchenko , Audra Blissett , Usama Asari , Marcus Vasilios , Christian Hill , Jonathan Tennyson

A comprehensive hot line list is calculated for $^{31}$PH$_3$ in its ground electronic state. This line list, called SAlTY, contains almost 16.8 billion transitions between 7.5 million energy levels and it is suitable for simulating spectra…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-13 Clara Sousa-Silva , Ahmed F. Al-Refaie , Jonathan Tennyson , Sergei N. Yurchenko

An algorithm for the calculation of hyperfine structure and spectra of diatomic molecules based on the variational nuclear motion is presented. Hyperfine coupling terms considered are Fermi-contact, nuclear spin-electron spin dipole-dipole,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Qianwei Qu , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

The majority of stars are now thought to support exoplanets. Many of those exoplanets discovered thus far are categorized as rocky objects with an atmosphere. Most of these objects are however hot due to their short orbital period. Models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Jonathan Tennyson , Sergei N. Yurchenko

Ro-vibrational Stark-associated phenomena of small polyatomic molecules are modelled using extensive spectroscopic data generated as part of the ExoMol project. The external field Hamiltonian is built from the computed ro-vibrational line…

Comprehensive rotation-vibration line lists are presented for the two main isotopologues of methyl chloride, $^{12}$CH$_3{}^{35}$Cl and $^{12}$CH$_3{}^{37}$Cl. The line lists, OYT-35 and OYT-37, are suitable for temperatures up to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 A. Owens , A. Yachmenev , W. Thiel , A. Fateev , J. Tennyson , S. N. Yurchenko

In what has been described as the fourth age of Quantum Chemistry, variational nuclear motion programs are now routinely being used to obtain the vibration-rotation levels and corresponding wavefunctions of small molecules to the sort of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Jonathan Tennyson

New molecular line lists for calcium monohydride ($^{40}$Ca$^{1}$H) and magnesium monohydride ($^{24}$Mg$^{1}$H) and its minor isotopologues ($^{25}$Mg$^{1}$H and $^{26}$Mg$^{1}$H) are presented. The rotation-vibration-electronic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Alec Owens , Sophie Dooley , Luke McLaughlin , Brandon Tan , Guanming Zhang , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

We present the ExoAtom database, www.exomol.com/exoatom, an extension of the ExoMol database to provide atomic line lists in the ExoMol format. ExoAtom is designed for detailed astrophysical, planetary, and laboratory applications. ExoAtom…

This article covers few selected aspects of quantum theory of molecular rotations and vibrations. Triatomic molecules are the simplest systems, which show qualitative characteristics of larger polyatomic molecules. On the minimal example of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Emil J. Zak

A publicly available database of opacities for molecules of astrophysical interest, ExoMolOP, has been compiled for over 80 species, based on the latest line list data from the ExoMol, HITEMP and MoLLIST databases. These data are generally…

The GYT line list covering rotational, rovibrational and rovibronic transitions of the mercapto radical SH is presented. This work extends and replaces the SNaSH line list [Yurchenko et al., 2018, MNRAS, 478, 270] which covers the ground…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Maire N. Gorman , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

In this article we report the release of a new program for calculating the emissivity of atomic transitions. The program, which can be obtained with its documentation from our website www.scienceware.net, passed various rigorous tests and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Taha Sochi

We present the ExoPhoto database (https://exomol.com/exophoto/), an extension of the ExoMol database, specifically developed to address the growing need for high-accuracy, temperature-dependent photodissociation cross section data towards…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qing-He Ni , Christian Hill , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Marco Pezzella , Alexander Fateev , Zhi Qin , Olivia Venot , Jonathan Tennyson

Accurate line lists for three molecules, BeH, MgH and CaH, in their ground electronic states are presented. These line lists are suitable for temperatures relevant to exoplanetary atmospheres and cool stars (up to 2000K). A combination of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-22 Benjamin Yadin , Thomas Veness , Pierandrea Conti , Christian Hill , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

Recent advances in the use of High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy (HRCCS) to detect molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres, presents a new challenge for the accuracy of reference spectroscopic line lists. While parent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Marco G. Barnfield , Oleg L. Polyansky , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

Opacities of molecules in exoplanet atmospheres rely on increasingly detailed line-lists for these molecules. The line lists available today contain for many species up to several billions of lines. Computation of the spectral line profile…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Michiel Min

Theoretical calculations are contributing a significantly higher proportion of data to contemporary spectroscopic databases, which have traditionally relied on experimental observations and semi-empirical models. It is now a common…

Atmospheric studies of exoplanets and brown dwarfs are a cutting-edge and rapidly evolving area of astrophysics research. Calculating models of exoplanet or brown dwarf spectra requires knowledge of the wavelength-dependent absorption of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Arnav Agrawal , Ryan J. MacDonald