Molecular astronomy of cool stars and sub-stellar objects

Abstract

The optical and infrared spectra of a wide variety of `cool' astronomical objects including the Sun, sunspots, K-, M- and S-type stars, carbon stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets are reviewed. The review provides the necessary astronomical background for chemical physicists to understand and appreciate the unique molecular environments found in astronomy. The calculation of molecular opacities needed to simulate the observed spectral energy distributions is discussed.

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• Pressure-dependent water absorption cross sections for exoplanets and other atmospheres
• Laboratory spectra of hot molecules: data needs for hot super-Earth exoplanets
• Hot NH3 Spectra for Astrophysical Applications
• High accuracy water potential energy surface for the calculation of infrared spectra
• Spectroscopy of YO from first principles
• Empirical Line Lists in the ExoMol Database
• ExoMol line lists -- XLVII. Rovibronic molecular line list of the calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH)
• First spectropolarimetric measurement of a brown dwarf magnetic field in molecular bands
• MARVEL analysis of the measured high-resolution rovibronic spectra of the calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH)
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• Theoretical rovibronic spectroscopy of the calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH)
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