Theoretical study of the H3− cluster

1 December 1981

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 75 (11) , 5393-5397
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.441939

Abstract

Calculations at the ab initio level with an extended basis set including polarization functions have been performed in order to study the possible existence of ion–induced dipole clusters like H₃⁻ in the interstellar medium. Configuration interaction calculations have shown that the interstellar diffuse bands observed by astronomers and not attributed till now can be explained by the presence of such clusters in the ground state and excited states ¹Σ₀⁺ and ¹Π.

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