Example Hydroxymethyl, CH2OH

Tunneling-rotation interaction


This example deals with the tunneling-rotation interaction in the ground vibrational state of the hydroxymethyl radical. The data set is based on
1) O. Chitarra, M.-A. Martin-Drumel, B. Gans, J.-C. Loison, S. Spezzano, V. Lattanzi, H. S. P. Müller, and O. Pirali,
Reinvestigation of the Rotation-tunneling Spectrum of the CH2OH Radical – Accurate Frequency Determination of Transitions of Astrophysical Interest up to 330 GHz,
Astron. Astrophys. 644 (2020) Art. No. A123.

A pdf file (CH2OH_rot_2020.pdf) is available in this directory. This article describes in sufficient detail the considerations for the fit and the differences with respect to the first entry, which was based on Ref 2.

The spfit files are available in the directory background_files.
The initial files associated with version one are in the directory initial_vers.1.

Additional data were taken from
2) C. Bermudez, S. Bailleux, and J. Cernicharo,
Laboratory detection of the rotational-tunnelling spectrum of the hydroxymethyl radical, CH2OH,
Astron. Astrophys. 598 (2017) Art. No. A9.