Pure rotational as well as rovibrational data of several isotopic species of ArH⁺ have been fit simultaneously.
The J = 1 – 0 transition frequency was reported in
(1) K. B. Laughlin, G. A. Blake, R. C. Cohen, D. C. Hovde, and R. J. Saykally, 1987, Phys. Rev. Lett., 58, 996.
Additional lines up to J = 7 – 6 were taken from
(2) J. M. Brown, D. A. Jennings, M. Vanek, L. R. Zink, and K. Evenson, 1988, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 128, 587.
The J = 1 – 0 transition frequencies of three ArD⁺ isotopic species involving ⁴⁰Ar, ³⁶Ar, and ³⁸Ar, were published by
(3) W. C. Bowman, G. M. Plummer, E. Herbst, and F. C. De Lucia, 1983, J. Chem. Phys. 79, 2093;
the reported uncertainties for the ⁴⁰Ar and ³⁶Ar species have been increased somewhat.
High-J pure rotational transition frequencies of ArD⁺ were taken from
H. Odashima, A. Kozato, F. Matsushima, S. Tsunekawa, and K. Takagi, 1999, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 195, 356.
High-J pure rotational transitions of ArH⁺ up to high vibrational states were detected in the lower infrared region by
(5) D. J. Liu, W. C. Ho, and T. Oka, 1987, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 2442.
Rovibrational transitions of ArH⁺ were recorded by
(6) J. W. Brault and S. P. Davis, 1982, Physica Scripta 25, 268.
Additional high-v transitions as well as transitions of ArD⁺ were reported by
(7) J. W. C. Johns, 1984, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 106, 124.
Infrared data for ³⁶ArH⁺ and ³⁸ArH⁺ was provided by
(8) R. R. Filueira and C. E. Blom, 1988, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 127, 279.
There is great consistency among essentially all experimental data. Therefore, it may well be that ion drift effects on the reported frequencies are small. Nevertheless, all predictions should be viewed with some caution, especially if the calculated uncertainties exceed 2 MHz by far.
Experimental transitions frequencies with uncertainties larger than 200 kHz have not been merged.
The dominant intersteller argon isotope is ³⁶Ar. The by far dominant isotope on Earth is ⁴⁰Ar, but it originates almost entirely from the radioactive decay of ⁴⁰K. Its relative abundance in the ISM is almost negligible.
The partition function takes into account all vibrational states used in the fit. Non-zero contributions of individual vibrational states to the partition function are given in parentheses.
The ground state ab initio dipole moment was taken from
(9) M. Cheng, J. M. Brown, P. Rosmus, R. Linguerri, N. Komiha, and E. G. Myers, 2007, Phys. Rev. A 70, Art. No. 012502.