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The Interest in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) spans numerous fields and infrared spectroscopy is usually the method of choice to disentangle their molecular structure. In order to compute vibrational frequencies, numerous…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Gaétan Laurens , Malalatiana Rabary , Julien Lam , Daniel Peláez , Abdul-Rahman Allouche

Machine learning feature importance calculations are used to determine the molecular substructures that are responsible for mid and far-infrared (IR) emission features of neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Zhisen Meng , Yong Zhang , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are recognized as the primary contributors to the aromatic infrared bands (AIBs) widely observed in space. However, analyzing these AIBs remains challenging because of the immense structural diversity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Guoqing Tang , Jiang He , Zhao Wang , Dong Qiu

Supervised machine learning models are trained with various molecular descriptors to predict infrared emission spectra of interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. We demonstrate that a feature importance analysis based on the random…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Zhisen Meng , Xiaosi Zhu , Peter Kovacs , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

We introduce a machine learning molecular dynamics (MLMD) approach to calculate the anharmonic infrared (IR) absorption spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), key carriers of interstellar aromatic IR bands. This method accounts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xinghong Mai , Zhao Wang , Lijun Pan , Johannes Schorghuber , Peter Kovacs , Jesus Carrete , Georg K. H. Madsen

In the era of high-sensitivity infrared (IR) astronomy, traditional manual diagnostics are no longer sufficient to harvest the complex physical insights hidden within interstellar spectra. We introduce a machine learning paradigm that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Zhao Wang

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules are widely considered as the preferred candidate for the carrier of the unidentified infrared emission bands observed in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes. In this paper we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yong Zhang , Sun Kwok

The mid-infrared (IR; 5-15~$\mu$m) spectrum of a wide variety of astronomical objects exhibits a set of broad emission features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3 and 12.7 $\mu$m. About 30 years ago it was proposed that these signatures are due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Marissa J. F. Rosenberg , Olivier Berné , Christiaan Boersma

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the most powerful experimental techniques to characterize the structure of molecules and confined liquids. Nevertheless, the complexity of the systems under investigation usually requires…

Modelling the complex physics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) in the context of large-scale numerical simulations is a challenging task. A number of methods have been proposed to embed a description of the ISM into different codes. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-03 T. Grassi , E. Merlin , L. Piovan , U. Buonomo , C. Chiosi

Machine learning has emerged as an invaluable tool in many research areas. In the present work, we harness this power to predict highly accurate molecular infrared spectra with unprecedented computational efficiency. To account for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Michael Gastegger , Jörg Behler , Philipp Marquetand

Accurately predicting infrared (IR) spectra in computational chemistry using ab initio methods remains a challenge. Current approaches often rely on an empirical approach or on tedious anharmonic calculations, mainly adapted to semi-rigid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Saleh Abdul Al , Abdul-Rahman Allouche

The observed variations in profiles of the interstellar aromatic infrared bands correlate with the object type and are indicative of PAH populations existing i n different sources. Spectroscopic studies on PAHs can provide tools for the int…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Pathak , Shantanu Rastogi

Studying the anharmonicity in the infrared (IR) spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at elevated temperatures is important to understand vibrational features and chemical properties of interstellar dust, especially in the…

Accurately and efficiently predicting the infrared (IR) spectra of a molecule can provide insights into the structure-properties relationships of molecular species, which has led to a proliferation of machine learning tools designed for…

Machine learning has transformed the field of atomistic simulations by enabling the development of interatomic potentials that are computationally efficient and highly accurate. These advances have opened the door to modeling molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Nitik Bhatia , Ondrej Krejci , Patrick Rinke

The infrared (IR) emission of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) permeates our universe; astronomers have detected the IR signatures of PAHs around many interstellar objects. The IR emission of interstellar PAHs differs from their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-05 Cameron J. Mackie , Tao Chen , Alessandra Candian , Timothy J. Lee , Alexander G. G. M. Tielens

We extend the prediction of vibrational spectra to large sized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules comprising up to \sim 1500 carbon atoms by evaluating the efficiency of several computational chemistry methodologies. We employ…

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered as a major constituent of interstellar dust. They have been proposed as the carriers of the Aromatic Infrared Bands (AIBs) observed in emission in the mid-IR. They likely have a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-22 C. Joblin , O. Berne , A. Simon , G. Mulas

Machine learning of atomic-scale properties is revolutionizing molecular modelling, making it possible to evaluate inter-atomic potentials with first-principles accuracy, at a fraction of the costs. The accuracy, speed and reliability of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Giulio Imbalzano , Andrea Anelli , Daniele Giofr é , Sinja Klees , J örg Behler , Michele Ceriotti
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