CW-cavity ring down spectroscopy of the ozone molecule in the 6220-6400 cm-1 region

The absorption spectrum of ozone,O-16(3), has been recorded in the 6220-6400 cm(-1) region by high sensitivity CW-cavity ring down spectroscopy (alpha(min)similar to 3 x 10(-10) cm(-1)). 1836 rovibrational transitions have been assigned to the 2 nu(2) + 5 nu(3), 5 nu(1) + nu(3) and 2 nu(1) + 2 nu(2) + 3 nu(3) A-type bands centred at 6305, 6355 and 6387 cm(-1), respectively. In addition, 99 lines of the very weak nu(1) + 2 nu(2) + 4 nu(3) and 4 nu(1) + 3 nu(2) B-type bands are identified. The modeling of the observed spectrum in the effective Hamiltonian approach was particularly laborious and complex as several rovibrational interactions of both Coriolis and anaharmonic type were found to be of importance, in particular for the (124) vibrational state. Nevertheless, it has finally been possible to fit the 990 experimentally determined energy levels with an rms deviation of 8.29 x 10(-3) cm(-1) and to derive the transition moment parameters allowing a satisfactory reproduction of the observed intensities. As the differences in positions between the final calculations and observations are still larger than the experimental accuracy, we provide the list of all energy levels derived from the observation, in addition to their differences with the calculated ones. These experimental energy levels, with the transition moment parameters were used to generate a line-list of 2451 transitions, reproducing the observed spectrum. This list is given as Supplementary Material. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.