BASECOL2023 scientific content

¹ Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LERMA, Paris, France
e-mail: marie-lise.dubernet@observatoiredeparis.obspm.fr
² Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, 33400 Talence, France
³ Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Av. Pedro de Valdivia 425, 7500912 Providencia, Santiago, Chile
e-mail: otonieldenisalpizar@gmail.com
⁴ LSAMA, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Université Tunis El-Manar, 1060 Tunis, Tunisia
⁵ Marquette University, Chemistry Department, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
⁶ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
⁷ KU Leuven, Department of Chemistry, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
⁸ Univ. Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) – UMR 6251, 35000 Rennes, France
⁹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
¹⁰ Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Av. Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile
¹¹ Centro para el Desarrollo de la Nanociencia y la Nanotecnología (CEDENNA), Av. Ecuador 3493, Santiago 9170124, Chile
¹² Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685, USA
¹³ LOMC – UMR 6294, CNRS-Université du Havre, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, BP 1123, 76063 Le Havre Cedex, France
¹⁴ IPAG, Université Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, CS 40700, 38058 Grenoble, France
¹⁵ Department of Physics, Penn State University, Berks Campus, Reading, PA 19610, USA
¹⁶ Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Informatics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdansk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
¹⁷ Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
¹⁸ Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece
¹⁹ Departamento de Química Física, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
²⁰ Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
²¹ Université Paris Cité and Univ. Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, 75013 Paris, France
²² Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
²³ Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
²⁴ Laboratoire Atomes Lasers, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar 5005, Senegal
²⁵ Depart. of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2451, USA
²⁶ Departamento de Física Atómica y Molecular, Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de La Habana, Ave. Salvador Allende No. 1110, 10400 Plaza de la Revolución, La Habana, Cuba
²⁷ Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA
²⁸ Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
²⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
³⁰ Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
³¹ Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician,” University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
³² Department of Chemistry, Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer, 34450, Istanbul, Turkey

Received: 11 October 2023
Accepted: 5 November 2023

Abstract

Context. The global context of making numerous data produced by researchers available requires collecting and organising the data, assigning meaningful metadata, and presenting the data in a meaningful and homogeneous way. The BASECOL database, which collects inelastic rate coefficients for application to the interstellar medium and to circumstellar and cometary atmospheres, meets those requirements.

Aims. We aim to present the scientific content of the BASECOL2023 edition.

Methods. While the previous versions relied on finding rate coefficients in the literature, the current version is populated with published results sent by the producers of data. The paper presents the database, the type of data that can be found, the type of metadata that are used, and the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) standards that are used for the metadata. Finally, we present the different datasets species by species.

Results. As the BASECOL database, interconnected with the VAMDC e-infrastructure, uses the VAMDC standards, the collisional data can be extracted with tools using VAMDC standards and can be associated with spectroscopic data extracted from other VAMDC connected databases such as the Cologne database for molecular spectroscopy (CDMS), the jet propulsion laboratory molecular spectroscopy database (JPL), and the high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database (HITRAN).