Abstract
Potential energy curves of the first 13 electronic states of CaH (in symmetries Sigma , Pi and Delta ) have been calculated. The calculation method consists of a limited configuration interaction (CI) with an empirical correction via an effective Hamiltonian. The correction accounts, in a very simple way, for the various intershell effects (in Ca), which are not taken into account by the authors' CI calculation. It leads to a good agreement with the available spectroscopic data on the CaH molecular states.