The HD molecules
are key species for the cooling of pristine gas
at temperatures below 100 K. They are also known to be key tracers
of H2 in protoplanetary disks and thus, they can be used
as a measure of protoplanetary disks mass. Accurate modeling of the
cooling mechanism and of HD abundance in astrophysical media requires
a proper modeling for its excitation by both radiative and collisional
processes. Here, we report quantum time-independent calculations of
collisional rate coefficients for the rotational excitation of HD
by H for temperatures ranging from 10 to 1000 K. The reactive and
hydrogen exchange channels are taken into account in the scattering
calculations. New exact quantum results are compared to previous calculations
performed neglecting reactive and exchange channels. We found that
for temperatures higher than ∼300 K, the impact of these channels
on the rate coefficients cannot be neglected. Such results suggest
that the new HD–H collisional data have to be used for properly
modeling HD cooling function and HD abundance in all the astrophysical
environments where HD plays a role, e.g. in photon-dominated regions,
protoplanetary disks, early Universe chemistry, and primordial star
forming regions.