Using filters

Cross-sections using Gaussian profile where only the states labelled A2Pi (upper) and X2Pi (lower) are selected.

Example:

(PS cross-sections)

Temperature 2000.0
Range 0.  45000.0

Npoints 45001

filter
 upper 7 A2Pi
 lower 7 X2Pi
end

emission
gaussian
hwhm 1.0

output PS_emis_2000_AX

States      PS.states
Transitions  PS.trans

The filter command has the following structure:

lower col Label

where upper and lower refer to the upper and lower states, respectively; label is the reference label (number or string) which appear in the col -column (integer, 1,2,3…) .

An example of a multiple QNs-filter:

filter
 upper 6 0
 upper 7 0
 upper 8 0
 upper 9 1
 upper 10 1
 upper 11 1
 upper 12 0
 upper 13 0
 upper 14 0
 lower 6 0
 upper 7 1
 upper 8 1
 upper 9 0
 upper 10 0
 upper 11 0
 upper 12 0
 upper 13 0
 upper 14 0
end

Here the first number in each pair indicates the column number in the .states file (counting from the 1st column with the state index), while the second is the value used in the filter of the state. In this case this is to select the vibrational band nu3 (0 00 111 000 <- 0 00 000 000) of methane.

>Filters are case-sensitive.

Uncertainty filter

For the line lsits with uncertainties (column 5), the uncertainty filter (threshold) can be used to select accurate transitions only. Both states (upper and lower) must satisfy the uncertainty criteria. The uncertainly keywords are Unc or uncertainty with the uncertainty value as the parameter. This should be specified in the filter section.

Example:

filter

unc 0.001

end

The default column with uncertainty is number 5, which can be changed in the QN section using the keyword unc:

QN

unc 6

end

Using QN

A QN section has been added which explicitly tells ExoCross program which columns in the .states file it should read for QNs. The keywords for the QN section include density and vib, followed by one and three numbers respectively. The one number following the density keyword is the column which contains the density information, usually the last column unless edited by hand. The vib keyword is followed by two numbers denoting the first and last column number for the last vibrational quantum number used. For example, if the density column is the 18th column in the .states file and the vibrational normal mode quantum numbers v1, v2, v3 are in columns 7, 8 and 9 then the QN section would appear as:

QN
 density 18
 vib 7 10
end