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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 433, Issue 3, Pages 1145-1152Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042118
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molecular data; methods : laboratory; ISM : individual objects : L1512; ISM : molecules; radio lines : ISM
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The rotational spectra of DCO+ and its two isotopomers (DCO+)-C-13 and (DCO+)-O-18, produced in a negative glow discharge cell, have been recorded in the 137-792 GHz region, which includes lines from J = 2 <- 1 up to J = 11 <- 10. The determined rotational and centrifugal distortion constants allow to predict the DCO+ rotational spectrum up to 1000 GHz with an accuracy of 1 part in 10(8) or better. This is important for kinematic studies of dense molecular cloud cores and for future far-infrared observations. We also report on the first detection of the hyperfine structure of the DCO+(1-0) line made at the IRAM 30 m antenna, toward the quiescent starless cloud core L1512, in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. We point out that this is the first observation of the hyperfine splitting due to the deuteron. This allowed us to quantify the effects of the hyperfine splitting on the line width determination; if the hyperfine structure is not taken into account in the line fit, the DCO+(1-0) line width is overestimated by a significant factor (greater than or similar to 2).
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