In order to model the high-resolution infrared spectrum of the phosphine molecule in the 3 µm region, a global approach involving the lower three polyads of the molecule (Dyad, Pentad and Octad) as been applied using an eective hamiltonian in the form of irreducible tensors. This model allowed to describe all the 15 vibrational states involved and to consider explicitly all relevant ro-vibrational interactions that cannot be accounted for by conventional perturbation approaches.2245 levels (up to J = 14) observed through transitions arising from 34 cold and hot bands including all available existing data as well as new experimental data have been tted simultaneously using a unique set of eective hamiltonian parameters.The rms achieved is 0.63 × 10 µm by dividing the rms reported by previous works by a factor 6. A preliminary intensity analysis based on consistent sets of eective dipole moment operators for cold and hot bands has been simultaneously undertaken for direct comparison between observed and modeled absorption from 700 to 3500 cm −1 .Keywords : Phosphine ; PH 3 ; Vibrational polyads ; Global modeling ; Near infrared ; High-resolution ; Positions ; Intensities
IntroductionAs part of extensive eorts to support remote sensing of Jupiter and Saturn many works have been devoted to the high-resolution infrared spectrum of phosphine [1,2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Recent works focused on the 3 µm region reported experimental measurements and assignments [5, 7], but so far no comprehensive modeling was reported.1 hal-00355701, version 1 -23 Jan 2009 At present, the line parameters of phosphine (positions and intensities) in the 3 µm region rely essentially on the empirical database reported in Ref. [7] and included in HITRAN [8] and GEISA [9]. In the spectral region from 2700 to 3500 cm −1 , the HITRAN compilation contains over 3000 unassigned PH 3 lines with intensities ranging from 1. × 10 −25 to 1.5 × 10 −22 cm×molecule −1 . Moreover, only one hot band arising from the upper state of ν 2 is included. The main reason for this lack of modeling is the fundamental limitation of conventional perturbation approaches. So far, only weakly interacting features could be tted using isolated band models while strongly interacting states were left out. In fact, apart from degeneracy considerations, due to the quasi spherical character of the inertia tensor of the molecule and to specic quasi coincidences among its vibrational fundamental frequencies, the vibrational pattern of the phosphine molecule is quite similar to that of the methane molecule. The phosphine molecule was then a good candidate for the global approach successfully developed for spherical tops [10,11] and extensively applied to other complex band systems encountered in polyatomic molecules [12,13,14]. The vibrational spectrum of PH 3 and its isotopomers has also been investigated by ab initio calculations [15,16,17,18]. Recent works have reported ab initio vibrational energies [19,20] and theoretical transition moments [21]. The experimental data involv...