6 papers
Collisional energy transfer in ethanimine + He system
Vivek Vijay, Francesca Tonolo, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez +5
The ethanimine molecule, CH3CHNH, is one of the prebiotic molecules detected by astronomers in chemically-rich molecular clouds in the Galactic Center. The observations indicate a…
Collisional excitation of HCO by He: Experimental validation of state-of-the-art scattering calculations
Chinmai Sai Jureddy, Sandor Demes, Francesca Tonolo +2
Context. Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions in the interstellar medium require collisional rate coefficients to model astronomical observations; these are usually deter…
Quantum and Structural Effects Captured via a Statistical Method: the SACM Applied to HCN and HNC Colliding with CO
F. Tonolo, E. Quintas-Sánchez, A. Batista-Planas +2
This work spotlights the Statistical Adiabatic Channel Model as an efficient and accurate method for deriving low temperature (de)-excitation rate coefficients for collisions induc…
High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy and ASAP Analysis of Cyclopentadiene: The Vibrational Modes below 860 cm and the Mode at 961 cm
Luis Bonah, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Olivier Pirali +9
The spectroscopic fingerprints of vibrationally excited states of astronomical molecules are interesting for multiple reasons. They are excellent temperature probes of the correspo…
Collisional Excitation in Space: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in the JWST Era
Francesca Tonolo
This perspective offers a viewpoint on how the challenges of molecular scattering investigations of astrophysical interest have evolved in recent years. Computational progress has…
Collisional excitation of HCN by CO to refine the modeling of cometary comae
Francesca Tonolo, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, Adrian Batista-Planas +2
We present the first dataset of collisional (de)-excitation rate coefficients of HCN induced by CO, one of the main perturbing gases in cometary atmospheres. The dataset spans the…