Silvia Alessandrini (Bologna University) visited Exomol with the seminar on the search of phosphorus in astronomical environments.

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ExoMol database update

The ExoMol project provides extensive molecule line lists (lists of transition frequencies and associated Einstein A coefficients) for use in studies of  exoplanet and other hot atmospheres.
The ExoMol database has undergone a major upgrade providing both more comprehensive sets of data, ie more molecules, and a richer set of data, ie more features. The newly implemented data structure augments the provision of energy levels (and hence transition frequencies) and Einstein A coefficients with other key properties, including pressure-broadening parameters, lifetimes of individual states, temperature-dependent cooling functions, Landé g-factors, partition functions, cross sections, k-coefficients and transition dipoles with phase relations. Particular attention has been paid to the treatment of pressure broadening parameters. The new data structure includes a definition file which provides the necessary information for utilities accessing ExoMol through its application programming interface (API).

This new upgrade is fully documented in a recently published article (Tennyson et al., 2016, J. Molec. Spectrosc. 327, 73 and also on arXiv).
We welcome comments, feedback and suggestions for improvements and new molecules.