Molecular excitation in the interstellar medium: recent advances in collisional, radiative, and chemical processes.

2 Collisional excitation 7 2.1 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.1 Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.2 Potential energy surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.1... View More