Microwave pressure broadening studies on carbonyl fluoride

Abstract
The linewidth of carbonyl fluoride has been measured at room temperature (300K) using a double-modulation microwave spectrograph. Sixteen transitions have been studied for self-broadening cases. Six of these transitions have also been studied for the foreign-gas broadening in N2, BrCN, OCS, CH3CN and CHCl3 linewidths have also been calculated using Anderson-Tsao-Curnutte (1962) and Murphy-Boggs (1967) theories and compared with experimental results. Variation of the linewidth with the quantum number J has also been studied both theoretically and experimentally.