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Use of the BT2 water line list to determine the rotational temperature and H2O column density of the circumstellar envelope on five dates

Barber, R.J.; Banerjee, D.P.K.; Ashok, N.M.; Tennyson, J.; (2007) Use of the BT2 water line list to determine the rotational temperature and H2O column density of the circumstellar envelope on five dates. In: Corradi, R.L.M. and Munari, U., (eds.) The Nature of V838 Mon and its Light Echo. (pp. pp. 95-102). Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Francisco, US. Green open access

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Abstract

BT2 is the most accurate and complete synthetic water line list in existence; it includes over 505 million transitions. BT2 spectra generated at various temperatures and column densities were fitted to observed H band spectra of V838 Mon recorded on 5 dates between 20 Nov. 2002 and 25 Dec. 2004. Five absorption features in the observed spectra were identified as being due to water. With one exception, where there was a single strong water line, all of the featues were blends of water lines. 17 individual water lines were assigned and the rotational temperatures and H2O column densities of the circumstellar ejected envelope were determined for each of the five dates.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Use of the BT2 water line list to determine the rotational temperature and H2O column density of the circumstellar envelope on five dates
ISBN-13: 9781583812310
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?b...
Language: English
Additional information: Proceedings of the conference held 16 - 19 May 2006 in Los Concajos, La Palma, Spain. Chapter reproduced here by the kind permission of the ASP Conference Series.
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/17021
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