A Highly Excited Ammonia Cloud at least 300 pc from the Galactic Centre

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. F. Gardner ◽  
F. Boes

AbstractA cloud with a l.s.r. velocity of ∼ 160 km s-1 and a half-width of ∼ 25 km s-1 was mapped in the (1,1), (2,2) and (4,4) lines of para NH3 and the (3,3) and (6,6) lines of ortho NH3 using the 40″ arc beam of the 100-m Effelsberg telescope. The cloud was extended some 5′ in latitude and contained a central concentration ∼ 1′.5 in size at ℓ = 1°.59; b=0°.01. Line temperatures of the four higher transitions define a rotational temperature of ∼ 120 K, while the (1,1) and (2,2) alone yield the lower value of ∼ 40 K. The high temperatures, well above that of the dust, are too high to be caused by collisions with H2 molecules in the ground state, but might result from collisions with H2 in excited states. On a (ℓ, v) plot the cloud does not coincide with any generally accepted galactic centre feature but it is possibly located near the periphery of the ‘rotating nuclear disk’, where conditions would be favourable for the production of shocks, excited H2 and possibly high NH3 temperatures.

1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 1801-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Colbow

In boron-doped silicon, optical absorption takes place through the excitation of bound holes from the ground state to excited states. This leads to a line spectrum. Because of a lack of sufficient resolution and a failure to make proper allowance for line distortion by the finite spectrometer slit width, previous authors gave a misleading picture of the low-temperature half-width, the temperature dependence of this half-width, and the onset of concentration broadening at low temperatures.New experimental data are presented and explained by introducing the mechanism of statistical Stark broadening due to ionized impurities, and by modifying Baltensperger's (1953) theory for concentration broadening. At low impurity concentration the width is attributed to phonon broadening (Barrie and Nishikawa 1963) and internal strains (Kohn 1957).


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Brister ◽  
Carlos Crespo-Hernández

<p></p><p> Damage to RNA from ultraviolet radiation induce chemical modifications to the nucleobases. Unraveling the excited states involved in these reactions is essential, but investigations aimed at understanding the electronic-energy relaxation pathways of the RNA nucleotide uridine 5’-monophosphate (UMP) have not received enough attention. In this Letter, the excited-state dynamics of UMP is investigated in aqueous solution. Excitation at 267 nm results in a trifurcation event that leads to the simultaneous population of the vibrationally-excited ground state, a longlived <sup>1</sup>n<sub>O</sub>π* state, and a receiver triplet state within 200 fs. The receiver state internally convert to the long-lived <sup>3</sup>ππ* state in an ultrafast time scale. The results elucidate the electronic relaxation pathways and clarify earlier transient absorption experiments performed for uracil derivatives in solution. This mechanistic information is important because long-lived nπ* and ππ* excited states of both singlet and triplet multiplicities are thought to lead to the formation of harmful photoproducts.</p><p></p>


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Mrázek ◽  
Ján Žabka ◽  
Zdeněk Dolejšek ◽  
Zdeněk Herman

The beam scattering method was used to investigate non-dissociative single-electron charge transfer between the molecular dication CO22+ and Ar or Ne at several collision energies between 3-10 eV (centre-of-mass, c.m.). Relative translational energy distributions of the product ions showed that in the reaction with Ar the CO2+ product was mainly formed in reactions of the ground state of the dication, CO22+(X3Σg-), leading to the excited states of the product CO2+(A2Πu) and CO2+(B2Σu+). In the reaction with Ne, the largest probability had the process from the reactant dication excited state CO22+(1Σg+) leading to the product ion ground state CO2+(X2Πg). Less probable were processes between the other excited states of the dication CO22+, (1∆g), (1Σu-), (3∆u), also leading to the product ion ground state CO2+(X2Πg). Using the Landau-Zener model of the reaction window, relative populations of the ground and excited states of the dication CO22+ in the reactant beam were roughly estimated as (X3Σg):(1∆g):(1Σg+):(1Σu-):(3∆u) = 1.0:0.6:0.5:0.25:0.25.


1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-919
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos López ◽  
José L. Alonso

Abstract The rotational transitions of 3,4-dihydro-1,2-pyran in the ground state and six vibrationally excited states have been assigned. The rotational constants for the ground state (A = 5198.1847(24), B = 4747.8716(24) and C = 2710.9161(24) have been derived by fitting μa, μb and μc-type transitions. The dipole moment was determined from Stark displacement measurements to be 1.400(8) D with its principal axis components |μa| =1.240(2), |μb| = 0.588(10) and |μc| = 0.278(8) D. A model calculation to reproduce the ground state rotational constants indicates that the data are consistent with a twisted ring conformation. The average intensity ratio gives vibrational separations between the ground and excited states of the ring-bending and ring-twisting modes of ~ 178 and ~ 277 cm-1 respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Conti ◽  
Davide Masoero

Abstract We study the large momentum limit of the monster potentials of Bazhanov-Lukyanov-Zamolodchikov, which — according to the ODE/IM correspondence — should correspond to excited states of the Quantum KdV model.We prove that the poles of these potentials asymptotically condensate about the complex equilibria of the ground state potential, and we express the leading correction to such asymptotics in terms of the roots of Wronskians of Hermite polynomials.This allows us to associate to each partition of N a unique monster potential with N roots, of which we compute the spectrum. As a consequence, we prove — up to a few mathematical technicalities — that, fixed an integer N , the number of monster potentials with N roots coincides with the number of integer partitions of N , which is the dimension of the level N subspace of the quantum KdV model. In striking accordance with the ODE/IM correspondence.


1977 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1541-1543
Author(s):  
H. Sterk ◽  
J. J. Suschnigg

Abstract Attempts to the Calculation of the Chemical Shift with Especial Consideration of the Paramagnetic Term The calculation of the paramagnetic term according to the Pople formalism of the chemical shift is expanded. The hitherto constant value of the energy gap between the ground state and the excited states is replaced by the value of the lowest lying excitation. This leads to a remarkably better differentiation of the paramagnetic terms of different compounds. The influence is shown on ethane, ethene and ethine.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1480-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Bichard ◽  
J. C. Giles

The optical absorption spectra of arsenic and phosphorus donor impurities in silicon have been studied under conditions of improved resolution. Absorption lines due to transitions from the impurity ground state to the excited states 2p0, 2p±, 3p0, 3p±, 4p0, 4 p±, and 5p0, and 5p± have been observed at 4.2° K. The relative intensities of some of these absorption lines are compared with existing experimental and theoretical estimates. The contribution of instrumental broadening to the observed line widths is assessed and natural line widths are estimated. The estimates indicate values for the natural line widths which are much less than those previously reported. For phosphorus impurity, the natural line widths are estimated to be less than 0.08 × 10−3 electron volts full width at half-maximum. The possibility of concentration broadening is discussed in connection with the arsenic data.


2002 ◽  
Vol 117 (21) ◽  
pp. 9703-9709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Joon Kim ◽  
Young-Joo Kim ◽  
Chang-Ho Shin ◽  
Byung-Jin Mhin ◽  
T. Daniel Crawford

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (8) ◽  
pp. 705-711
Author(s):  
Wessameldin S. Abdelaziz

Energy levels of 249 excited levels in nickel-like erbium are calculated using the 3s23p63d10 as a ground state and the single electron excited states from n = 3 to n = 4, 5 orbitals, calculations have been performed using FAC code (Gu. Astrophys. J. 582, 1241 (2003). doi:10.1086/344745 ). The populations are calculated over electron densities from 1020 to 1023 cm−3 and electron temperatures 1/2, 3/4 of the ionization potential of Ni-like Er. The gain coefficients of the transitions are calculated.


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