Saturday, December 2, 2017

Abstract-Terahertz Spectroscopy and Global Analysis of the Rotational Spectrum of Doubly Deuterated Amidogen Radical ND2



Mattia Melosso, Claudio Degli Esposti,  Luca Dore,

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aa9220/meta

The deuteration mechanism of molecules in the interstellar medium is still being debated. Observations of deuterium-bearing species in several astronomical sources represent a powerful tool to improve our understanding of the interstellar chemistry. The doubly deuterated form of the astrophysically interesting amidogen radical could be a target of detection in space. In this work, the rotational spectrum of the ND2 radical in its ground vibrational and electronic ${X}^{2}{B}_{1}$ state has been investigated between 588 and 1131 GHz using a frequency modulation millimeter/submillimeter-wave spectrometer. The ND2 molecule has been produced in a free-space glass absorption cell by discharging a mixture of ND3 and Ar. Sixty-four new transition frequencies involving J values from 2 to 5 and K a values from 0 to 4 have been measured. A global analysis including all the previous field-free pure rotational data has been performed, allowing for a more precise determination of a very large number of spectroscopic parameters. Accurate predictions of rotational transition frequencies of ND2 are now available from a few gigahertz up to several terahertz.

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