8 Summary of the high temperature results

We have combined the spectra of the three lowest bands (RT, the fundamental band and the 1st overtone) and multiplied them by a function f(T) presented in Sect. 3.1. Next, we assembled the results with the data for the second overtone, which did not need to be rescaled.

The results for the high temperature data are shown in Fig. 2. The spectra are computed for hydrogen at thermal equilibrium. We present here our results from 400 to 1000 K. In addition, we compare our current results with those obtained by Borysow et al. (2001) at 1000 K. The agreement between the two sets is remarkable, when the difference in approach is considered.

Figure 2: The CIA spectra of hydrogen pairs computed at temperatures from 400 to 1000 K. Spectra are given at 400 K (lowest lying solid line), 500 K, 600 K, 700 K, 800 K, 900 K and 1000 K (upper dotted line ending at 17 000 cm-1). For comparison, the results obtained by Borysow et al. (2001) at 1000 K are also shown (thick, uppermost, solid line).