THE BENDING OF C₃: EXPERIMENTALLY PROBING THE l-TYPE DOUBLING AND RESONANCE

Martin-Drumel, Marie-Aline

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THE BENDING OF C₃: EXPERIMENTALLY PROBING THE l-TYPE DOUBLING AND RESONANCE

Author(s)

Martin-Drumel, Marie-Aline

Contributor(s)

• Zhao, Dongfeng
• Chen, Yang
• Zhang, Qiang
• Linnartz, Harold
• Doney, Kirstin D
• Western, Colin
• Tokaryk, Dennis W.
• Vervloet, Michel
• Pirali, Olivier

Issue Date

2023-06-20

Keyword(s)

Mini-symposium: Infrared Spectroscopy in the JWST Era

Abstract

C₃, a pure carbon chain molecule that has been identified in different astronomical environments, is considered a good probe of kinetic temperatures through observation of transitions involving its low-lying bending mode (ν₂) in its ground electronic state. With the aim to investigate this bending mode with multiple quanta of excitation, we have undertaken high resolution optical and mid-infrared investigations on the species produced in discharge experiments. We report here the most complete analysis of the X˜ and A˜ states of C₃ (literature and present study) using a single PGOPHER file. New experimental measurements, reported in the past years at ISMS, result in 36 rovibronic A˜ 1Πu − X˜ 1Σ⁺ bands (originating from X˜(0v₂0), v₂ = 0 − 5, levels) recorded by laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy at the University of Science and Technology of China and the rovibrational ν₃ band (revealing hot bands involving up to 5 quanta of excitation in ν₂) recorded by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy using a globar source on the AILES beamline of the SOLEIL synchrotron facility. The combined fit allows for the accurate determination of the rotational parameters and absolute energy levels of C₃, in particular for states involving the bending mode. The spectroscopic information derived from this work enables new interstellar searches for C₃, not only in the infrared and optical regions investigated here but also notably in the ν₂ band region (around 63 cm⁻¹) where vibrational satellites can now be accurately predicted. This makes C₃ a universal diagnostic tool to study very different astronomical environments, from dark and dense to translucent clouds.

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International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122317

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2023.6847

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