Collision-Induced Absorption In Gases Book

1	Introduction	1
1.1	Historical sketch	6
1.2	Interaction-induced absorption: the characteristics	13
1.3	Significance	17
1.4	Organization of the material	18
2	Recapitulation	20
2.1	Intermolecular potentials	20
2.2	Molecular collisions	23
2.3	Dimers and larger clusters	31
2.4	Distribution functions	36
2.5	Molecular multipoles	39
2.6	Spectral transforms	41
2.7	Dipole radiation	44
2.8	Instrumentation	53
3	Experimental results	56
3.1	The translational spectra	58
3.2	The rototranslational spectra	81
3.3	The rotovibrational spectra	109
3.4	Collision-induced emission	131
3.5	Dipole autocorrelation function	133
3.6	Induced spectra and allowed transitions	133
3.7	Empirical line shapes	134
3.8	Analysis of measured spectra	138
4	Induced dipoles	144
4.2	Theory	146
4.3	Measurement	153
4.4	Computation	159
4.5	Miscellaneous remarks	184
4.6	Ternary dipoles	187
4.7	Asymptotic expressions	191
5	Theory: monatomic gas mixtures	195
5.1	Ansatz	196
5.2	Spectral moments	199
5.3	Virial expansion of line shape	225
5.4	Dipole autocorrelation function	230
5.5	Line shapes of diatomic systems	234
5.6	Classical diatom line shapes	246
5.7	Symmetry of line profiles	251
5.8	Intercollisional interference	257
5.9	Other approaches to line shape	266
5.10	Model line profiles	270
6	Theory: molecular gases	279
6.1	Spectral moments	280
6.2	Line shapes of pairs of linear molecules	304
6.3	Asymmetry of line profiles	338
6.4	Dipole autocorrelation function	349
6.5	Intercollisional dip	349
6.6	Interference of allowed and induced lines	352
7	Related topics	356
7.1	Collision-induced electronic spectra	356
7.2	Collision-induced light scattering	366
7.3	Dielectric properties of gases	370
7.4	Astrophysical applications	371
7.5	Other applications	374
	References	377
	Index	403