1. Rotational spectroscopy of CH3OD with a reanalysis of CH3OD toward IRAS 16293–2422.
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Ilyushin, V. V., Müller, H. S. P., Drozdovskaya, M. N., Jørgensen, J. K., Bauerecker, S., Maul, C., Porohovoi, R., Alekseev, E. A., Dorovskaya, O., Zakharenko, O., Lewen, F., Schlemmer, S., Xu, L.-H., and Lees, R. M.
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ASTRONOMICAL observations ,QUANTUM numbers ,RADIO lines ,QUANTUM wells ,ASTROCHEMISTRY - Abstract
We have started a measurement campaign of numerous methanol isotopologs in low-lying torsional states in order to provide extensive line lists for radio astronomical observations from an adequate spectroscopic model and to investigate how the intricate vibrationtorsion-rotation interactions manifest themselves in the spectra of different isotopic species. After CD
3 OH and CD3 OD, we turn our focus to CH3 OD, which is an important species for studying deuteration in prestellar cores and envelopes that enshroud protostars. Notably, deuteration is frequently viewed as a diagnostic tool for star formation. The measurements used in this study were obtained in two spectroscopic laboratories and cover large fractions of the 34 GHz-1.35 THz range. As done in previous studies, we employed a torsion-rotation Hamiltonian model for our analysis that is based on the rho-axis method. The resulting model describes the ground and first excited torsional states of CH3 OD well up to quantum numbers J ⩽ 51 and Ka ⩽ 18. We derived a line list for radio astronomical observations from this model that is accurate up to at least 1.35 THz and should be sufficient for all types of radio astronomical searches for this methanol isotopolog in these two lowest torsional states. This line list was applied to a reinvestigation of CH3 OD in data from the Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey of IRAS 16293–2422 obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The new accurately determined value for the column density of CH3 OD implies that the deuteration in methanol differs in its two functional groups by a factor of ~7.5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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