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VI/56               Tests of shock chemistry in IC 443G   (Turner+, 1992)
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Tests of Shock Chemistry in IC 443G
     Turner B.E., Chan K.-W., Green S., Lubowich D.A.
    <Astrophys. J. 399, 114 (1992)>
    =1992ApJ...399..114T
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ADC_Keywords: Excitation rates

Description:
    The present study improves the computations of the collisional
    excitation rates by Green & Chapman (1978) for CS-H2;
    and by Bieniek & Green (1981) for SiO-H2.
    Part of the results are presented in the Appendix of
    the publication.

References:
  Bieniek R.J., Green S., 1981, Chem. Phys. Lett. 84, 380
  Green S., Chapman S., 1978, ApJS 37, 169

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
csh2rate.dat    80        420    CS-H2  Collisional excitation rates
sioh2rat.dat    80        420    SiO-H2 Collisional excitation rates
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: *.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations
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   4-  5  I2     ---     Ji        [0/20] Initial rotational level
   7-  8  I2     ---     Jf        [0/20] Final rotational level
  10- 17  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(20)  Collisional excitation rate at 20K
  19- 26  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(40)  Collisional excitation rate at 40K
  28- 35  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(70)  Collisional excitation rate at 70K
  37- 44  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(100) Collisional excitation rate at 100K
  46- 53  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(150) Collisional excitation rate at 150K
  55- 62  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(200) Collisional excitation rate at 200K
  64- 71  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(250) Collisional excitation rate at 250K
  73- 80  E8.2   cm3/s   Rate(300) Collisional excitation rate at 300K
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Historical Notes: by exchange from NASA-Goddard
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(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   13-Dec-1994

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