Welcome

Welcome to the Molecular Opacity Project Database of The University of Georgia!

This database is developed by the Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics (TAMA) group, part of the Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics (AMC) group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Georgia (UGA). It is intended to serve the astrophysical community for its needs of accurate line and continuum opacity data. With such a goal in mind, a selection of diatomic molecules of interest for Extrasolar Giant Planets (EGPs) and cool stellar atmosphere modeling, and other astrophysical applications, is presented in this database. Polyatomic molecules are to be included soon.

Several people have contributed to the elaboration of this database:

Phillip C. Stancil (TAMA group leader, UGA )
Peter H. Hauschildt (PHOENIX group leader, UGA)
Philippe F. Weck (Postdoctoral fellow, UGA)
Andreas Schweitzer (Postdoctoral fellow, PHOENIX group, UGA)
Kate Kirby (ITAMP director, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Tim G. Heil (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, AMC group, UGA)
Zhi Wang (Graduate student, TAMA group)

The following students have participated actively to the present database as former NSF or SURP summer research undergraduates for TAMA :

Stephen S. Skory (University of California, Berkeley)
Julia Green (Albany College)

This work is sponsored by NASA grant NAG5-10551 from the Origins of Solar Systems Program and by NSF grant AST-0087172.

Acknowledgments:

Jeff Deroshia and Mike Caplinger for technical support
FreeBSD
EITS for computer time
The Center for Simulational Physics

Last modified: July 4, 2002.