C3N
Cyanoethynylide ion, X 1Σ+
Species tag 050514
Version2*
Date of EntryJan. 2010
ContributorH. S. P. Müller

The data have been summarized in
(1) T. Amano, 2010, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 259, 16.
New measurements between 358 and 505 GHz were published in that work. Included were additional data already used in the July 2008 entry from
(2) P. Thaddeus, C. A. Gottlieb, H. Gupta, S. Brünken, M. C. McCarthy, M. Agúndez, M. Guélin, and J. Cernicharo, 2008, Astrophys. J. 677, 1132;
and from
(3) M. C. McCarthy and P. Thaddeus, 2008, J. Chem. Phys. 129, Art. No. 054314.
Note: the reported uncertainties were generally slightly optimistic. Uncertainties were multiplied by 1.5 for data in (1) (mostly to 15 kHz) while those in (2) were increased from 15 to 25 kHz. The J" = F" = 2 line from (3) was omitted from the final line list.
Predictions are probably reliable throughout.
The 14N hyperfine splitting can be resolved for low values of J. Therefore, a separate hyperfine calculation is provided up to J" = 4. While the general entries do NOT include hyperfine effects, the spin multiplicity gI of 3 for the 14N nucleus is included in the partition function as well as in the upper state degeneracy gup.
The dipole moment was calculated in (2) and references therein.

Lines Listed99
Frequency / GHz< 958
Max. J99
log STR0-6.0
log STR1-3.7
Isotope Corr.-0.0156
Egy / cm–10.0
 µa / D3.1
 µb / D 
 µc / D 
 A / MHz 
 B / MHz4851.622
 C / MHz 
 Q(300.0)3867.6977
 Q(225.0)2900.7591
 Q(150.0)1933.9967
 Q(75.00)967.4108
 Q(37.50)484.1843
 Q(18.75)242.5885
 Q(9.375)121.7966
detected in ISM/CSMyes


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