Rotovibrational spectra, collision-induced

Hydrogen-Helium Mixtures. Accurate ab initio dipole surfaces for both the rototranslational collision-induced absorption spectrum in the far infrared [280], and the rotovibrational collision-induced absorption spectrum in the near infrared [151], have been obtained that could have... 

The significance of collision-induced absorption for the planetary sciences is well established (Chapter 7) reviews and updates appeared in recent years [115, 165, 166, 169-173]. Numerous efforts are known to model experimental and theoretical spectra of the various hydrogen bands for the astrophysical applications [170, 174-181]. More recently, important applications of colhsional absorption in astrophysics were discovered in the cool and extremely dense stellar atmospheres of white dwarf stars [14, 43, 182-184], at temperatures from roughly 3000 to 6000 K. Under such conditions, large populations of vibra-tionally excited H2 molecules exist and collision-induced absorption extends well into the visible region of the spectrum and beyond. Numerous hot bands, high H2 overtone bands, and H2 rotovibrational sum and difference spectral bands due to simultaneous transitions that were never measured in the laboratory must be expected. Ab initio calculations of the collisional absorption processes in the dense atmospheres of such stars have yet to be provided so that the actual stellar emission spectra may be obtained more accurately than presently known. 

We note that in the infrared region of the spectrum, another collision-induced spectroscopy is well known that in the laboratory is usually observed in absorption. CILS is related to collision-induced absorption as ordinary Raman spectroscopy is related to the usual rotovibrational spectroscopy in the infrared. An extensive bibliography and a recent update of the literature concerning collision-induced absorption have been compiled previously. ... 

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