Bonah, Luis ORCID: 0000-0001-5686-7883
(2025).
Analyzing Rotational Spectra of Complex Organic Molecules.
PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
This thesis presents the rotational analyses of the complex organic molecules acetone-13C1 (13CH3C(O)CH3), ethyl phosphaethyne (CH3CH2CP), cyclopentadiene (c–C5H6), and glycidaldehyde ((C2H3O)CHO). Three absorption spectrometers in Cologne were used to record high-resolution broadband spectra between 37 GHz and 1.1 THz resulting in a total coverage of 2.2 THz for the four species. Due to the high sensitivity of the experimental setups, singly substituted 13C isotopologues and vibrationally excited states up to 873 cm−1 could be identified. The singly substituted 13C isotopologues were analyzed for all species but acetone-13C1 in addition to eight vibrationally excited states of cyclopentadiene and 17 vibrationally excited states of glycidaldehyde. Five interaction systems, resulting from Fermi and Coriolis interactions between vibrationally excited states, were identified and described to within experimental accuracy with combined fits. A diverse set of tools was used for the spectroscopic analyses and in part also developed in the course of this thesis. Quantum chemical calculations at the CCSD(T) level together with previous analyses provided initial parameter values for the models which were efficiently extended with Loomis-Wood plots in the newly developed LLWP software. Additionally, an updated version of the recently developed double-modulation double-resonance technique was used to filter spectra for lines sharing an energy level. This greatly simplified the identification of lines in very dense spectra, especially if the lines of interest were weak, blended, and/or poorly predicted. The combination of these tools tremendously increased the speed and reliability of the analysis process. The resulting frequency predictions allow for radio astronomical searches over a wide range of frequencies and quantum numbers. Rotational lines from vibrationally excited states are useful as astronomical temperature probes while the isotopologue predictions are useful for tracing the astronomical 12C/13C ratio. In addition, the isotopologue data were used to derive (constrained) semi-experimental equilibrium geometries for ethyl phosphaethyne, and cyclopentadiene. The high number of assigned transitions and states analyzed to within experimental uncertainty highlights the quality and efficiency of the analysis process and the tools used. Future analyses of other molecular species are expected to benefit from these advancements, especially in terms of efficiency and reliability.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-754070 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 14 March 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute of Physics I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 11 March 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/75407 |
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