This is a beta version of BASECOL. For research data access and downloads, please use the official version available at: https://basecol.vamdc.eu

Welcome to BASECOL

This database, called BASECOL, is devoted to collisional ro-vibrational excitation of molecules by colliders such as atom, ion, molecule or electron mostly in the temperature range from 1K to 3000K. BASECOL is part of the "Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre" and BASECOL data can be retrieved from any tool using VAMDC standards, e.g the VAMDC portal, the SPECTCOL tool.

List of Targets

Description* Molecules
Atom C I, C II, O I, S I, Si I, Si II
Diatomic closed shell 36ArD+, 36ArH+, AlCl, AlO+, CF+, CH+, CN-, CO, CS, H2, HCl, HD, HeH+, HF, KCl, MgS, NaH, NeH+, NO+, NS+, PN, SiH+, SiO, SiS (2)
Diatomic open shell: Hund's case a C6H, CH, NO, OD, OH, SH
Diatomic open shell: Hund's case b 13CN, C15N, C2-, C4, CN, CO+, H2+, ND, NH, O2, SO
Linear triatomic closed shell AlCN, AlNC, C2H-, C3, CO2, DCN, DCO+, DNC, HCN, HCO+, HCO-17+, HCP, HCS+, HNC, N2H+, OCS
Non-linear triatomic closed shell D2O, H2O, H2S, HDO, MgC2, Si2C, SiC2, SO2
Symmetric top closed shell CH3CN, CH3NC, CH3OH, CH3SH, H3+, H3O+, ND3, NH3
Linear polyatomic closed shell C3O, C3S, C4H-, C5, C5H+, C5O, C5S, C6H-, CNCN, HC3N, HC5N, HC7N, HCCNC, HCNH+, HCNO, HCNS, HMgNC, HNCCC, NaC3N, NCCNH+, SiC4
Asymmetric closed shell c-C3H2 (2), H2CO, HC(S)CN, HOCO+, ND2H, NH2D
Linear triatomic open shell (13C)CH, C(13C)H, C-13-CS, C2D, C2H, C2N-, C2O, C2S, CC-13-S, CCS-34, MgCN, MgNC
Linear polyatomic open shell MgC3N, MgC4H
Non-linear triatomic open shell CH2, HCO, NH2
* Some molecules use provisional VAMDC classifications (e.g., C4, C6H); see Dubernet et al. (2024) for details.

Red indicates the molecules for which new datasets have been most recently added. A number in parentheses indicates how many new datasets were added for that molecule.

Citations

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Units

The rate coefficients are in cm3 s-1, the temperature is in Kelvin and the energy levels are in cm-1.