Multispectrum analysis of the μ9 band of 12C2H6: Positions, intensities, self- and N2-broadened half-width coefficients

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1234-1251

  Malathy Devi, V ^a   Rinsland, C P ^b   Chris Benner, D ^a   Sams, R L ^c   Blake, T A ^c  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

33.20.Ea

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PURITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL BANDS; HALF-WIDTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PURITY; HOT BAND; INTENSITY RATIO; LEAN MIXTURES; LINE POSITIONS; LINE-MIXING; LORENTZ; MULTI-SPECTRUM; MULTISPECTRUM ANALYSIS; NOISE LEVELS; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES FITTING; PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORIES; PRESSURE-INDUCED SHIFT; QUANTUM NUMBERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUB-BANDS; VOIGT LINE SHAPE; WASHINGTON;

GAS ABSORPTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

ETHANE;

ETHANE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MIXING; NITROGEN; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950919894     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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