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A&A
Volume 593, September 2016
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Article Number | L11 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Letters | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629038 | |
Published online | 13 September 2016 |
Double resonance rotational spectroscopy of CH2D+
I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
e-mail: asvany@ph1.uni-koeln.de
Received: 1 June 2016
Accepted: 16 August 2016
Context. Deuterated forms of CH3+ are thought to be responsible for deuterium enrichment in lukewarm astronomical environments. There is no unambiguous detection of CH2D+ in space to date.
Aims. Four submillimetre rotational lines of CH2D+ are documented in the literature. Our aim is to present a complete dataset of highly resolved rotational lines, including millimetre (mm) lines needed for a potential detection.
Methods. We used a low-temperature ion trap and applied a novel IR–mm-wave double resonance method to measure the rotational lines of CH2D+.
Results. We measured 21 low-lying (J ≤ 4) rotational transitions of CH2D+ between 23 GHz and 1.1 THz with accuracies close to 2 ppb.
Key words: astrochemistry / line: identification / molecular data / ISM: molecules / radio lines: ISM
© ESO, 2016
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