Studies on Molecules of Astrophysical Interest

Abstract

Extended abstractOur recent papers have been devoted to basic studies of diatomic and polyatomic molecules (Singh and Chaturvedi 1989 a,b,c,d; 1990a,b,c). A critical analysis of the 456 available references in literature has been made to select 135 polyatomic molecules, molecular ions and radicals containing from three to thirteen atoms of astrophysical significance. The results have been arranged in a text-cum-tabular form (Singh and Chaturvedi 1989 b,d). The compilation contains various information for each molecule, such as the spectral region, transition levels, and astrophysical objects where the respective molecules have been detected (say, comet, meteorite, Sun, planet, star, interstellar medium. Galaxy, etc.).