Basecol

This database, called BASECOL, is devoted to collisional ro-vibrational excitation of molecules by colliders such as atom, ion, molecule or electron mostly in the temperature range from 1K to 3000K. BASECOL is part of the "Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre" and BASECOL data can be retrieved from any tool using VAMDC standards, e.g the VAMDC portal, the SPECTCOL tool.

• From 17th March 2023 BASECOL database is under the scientific responsibility and leadership of Dr Otoniel Denis-Alpizar who should be contacted (see contact) for any question on BASECOL, in particular for any questions related to the ingestion of data in BASECOL.
• March 2023 : A publication describing the latest updates of BASECOL is to be expected within the next few months.

When you use data from BASECOL, please acknowledge in your papers :

• The original authors who produced the collisional data sets
• The BASECOL database by citing the following reference:
  M.L. Dubernet et al, "BASECOL2012: A collisional database repository and web service within Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC)", A&A, 553, 50

The rate coefficients are in cm³ s^-1, the temperature is in Kelvin and the energy levels are in cm^-1.