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[ascl:1010.077] LAMDA: Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database

LAMDA provides users of radiative transfer codes with the basic atomic and molecular data needed for the excitation calculation. Line data of a number of astrophysically interesting species are summarized, including energy levels, statistical weights, Einstein A-coefficients and collisional rate coefficients. Available collisional data from quantum chemical calculations and experiments are in some cases extrapolated to higher energies. Currently the database contains atomic data for 3 species and molecular data for 28 different species. In addition, several isotopomers and deuterated versions are available. This database should form an important tool in analyzing observations from current and future infrared and (sub)millimetre telescopes. Databases such as these rely heavily on the efforts by the chemical physics community to provide the relevant atomic and molecular data. Further efforts in this direction are strongly encouraged so that the current extrapolations of collisional rate coefficients can be replaced by actual calculations in future releases.

RADEX (ascl:1010.075), a computer program for performing statistical equilibrium calculations, is made publicly available as part of the data base.

Code site:
https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~moldata/
Described in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005A%26A...432..369S
Bibcode:
2010ascl.soft10077S
Preferred citation method:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005A%26A...432..369S ; please see additional citation information here: https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~moldata/. Please cite use of RADEX with this article: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...468..627V


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