http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08557
The collisional excitation of methanol molecule in non-dissociative magnetohydrodynamic shock waves is considered. All essential chemical processes that determine methanol abundance in the gas are taken into account in the shock model. The large velocity gradient approximation is used in the calculations of energy level populations of the molecule. We calculate the optical depth for inverted methanol transitions, and present the list of candidates for Class I methanol masers that have collisional pumping mechanism.
A. Nesterenok
Mon, 20 Sep 21
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Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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