Electron-impact rotational excitation of CH+

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New coupled-state R-matrix calculations are performed at energies up to 1 eV to give rotational excitation and de-excitation cross-sections for electron collisions with CH+. Rotational excitations with Δj up to 7 are considered. Transitions with Δj up to 6 are found to have appreciable cross-sections, those with Δj = 2 being comparable to (indeed slightly larger than) those with Δj = 1, the only ones considered previously. Rates for electron temperatures up to 15 000 K and critical electron densities are given. A model of CH+ rotational populations shows them to be relatively insensitive to electron temperatures in the range 800-2000 K, but to depend strongly upon electron density. The models predict a significant population in rotational states with j > 1 even at low electron densities; at higher densities the possibility exists that electron collisions alone might explain the recently observed populations in the planetary nebula NGC 7027.

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Lim, A. J., Rabadán, I., & Tennyson, J. (1999). Electron-impact rotational excitation of CH+. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 306(2), 473–478. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02533.x

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