Collisional excitation of interstellar PN by H₂: new interaction potential and scattering calculations

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Desrousseaux, B., Quintas-Sánchez, E., Dawes, R., Marinakis, S. and Lique, F. 2021. Collisional excitation of interstellar PN by H₂: new interaction potential and scattering calculations. Journal of Chemical Physics. 154 (Art. 034304). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0039145
AuthorsDesrousseaux, B., Quintas-Sánchez, E., Dawes, R., Marinakis, S. and Lique, F.
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Rotational excitation of interstellar PN molecules induced by collisions with H₂ is investigated. We present the first ab initio four-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for the PN–H₂ van der Waals system. The PES was obtained using an explicitly-correlated coupled cluster approach with single, double, and perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)-F12b]. The method of interpolating moving least squares was used to construct an analytical PES from these data. The equilibrium structure of the complex was found to be linear, with the H₂ aligned at the N end of the PN molecule, at an intermolecular separation of 4.2 Å. The corresponding well-depth is 224:3 cm⁻¹. The dissociation energies were found to be 40.19 cm⁻¹ and 75.05 cm⁻¹ for complexes of PN with ortho-H₂ and para-H₂, respectively.
Integral cross-sections for rotational excitation in PN–H₂ collisions were calculated using the new PES, and were found to be strongly dependent on the rotational level of the H₂ molecule. These new collisional data will be crucial to improve the estimation of PN abundance in the interstellar medium from observational spectra.

JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Journal citation154 (Art. 034304)
ISSN0021-9606
Year2021
PublisherAIP Publishing
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0039145
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Deposited13 Jan 2021
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Desrousseaux, B., Quintas-Sánchez, E., Dawes, R., Marinakis, S. and Lique, F. 2021. Collisional excitation of interstellar PN by H₂: new interaction potential and scattering calculations. Journal of Chemical Physics. 154 (Art. 034304) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0039145.

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