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Issue A&A
Volume 496, Number 1, March II 2009
Page(s) 275 - 279
Section Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811235
Published online 30 January 2009

A&A 496, 275-279 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811235

Accurate rest frequencies for the submillimetre-wave lines of the  $^{15}{\bf N}$-containing isotopologues of $\bf N_{2}H^+$ and $\bf N_{2}D^+$

L. Dore, L. Bizzocchi, C. Degli Esposti, and F. Tinti

Dipartimento di Chimica “G. Ciamician”, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
    e-mail: [luca.dore;luca.bizzocchi;claudio.degliesposti;francesca.tinti4]@unibo.it

Received 27 October 2008 / Accepted 13 January 2009

Abstract
The submillimetre-wave spectrum of the molecular ions N15NH+, 15NNH+, N15ND+, and 15NND+ have been investigated in the laboratory using a source-modulation microwave spectrometer equipped with a negative glow discharge cell. The diazenylium ion was produced in a Ar/N2/H2(D2) discharge plasma and the 15N-containing isotopologues were observed in natural abundance. Six new rotational transitions for the protonated species and seven for the deuterated ones were accurately measured in the frequency range 270-760 GHz. These new laboratory measurements of the rare isotopologues of N2H+ provide very precise rest frequencies at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths useful for the radioastronomical identification of their rotational lines in the ISM.


Key words: molecular data -- methods: laboratory -- techniques: spectroscopic -- radio lines: ISM



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