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Title: Spectral line shape in the limit of frequent velocity-changing collisions
(Submitted on 10 May 2023 (v1), last revised 27 Mar 2024 (this version, v2))
Abstract: The speed-dependent spectral line profiles collapse into a simple Lorentz profile in the regime dominated by the velocity-changing collisions. We derive general formulas for the effective width and shift of the Lorentzian for arbitrary speed-dependent collisional broadening and shift and velocity-changing collision operators. For a quadratic speed dependence of collisional broadening and shift, and the billiard ball model of velocity-changing collisions, we provide simple analytical expressions for the effective Lorentzian width and shift. We show that the effective Lorentzian width and shift split into components originating from the: well-known Dicke-narrowed Doppler width, speed-averaged collisional broadening and shift, their speed dependencies, and a product term that mixes the contributions of the broadening and shift speed dependencies. We show how the components depend on rates of speed-changing and velocity-changing collisions related to the perturber/absorber mass ratio. We validate analytical formulas numerically on example of H$_{2}$ transition perturbed by He.
Submission history
From: Nikodem Stolarczyk [view email][v1] Wed, 10 May 2023 11:30:53 GMT (148kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:05:12 GMT (139kb,D)
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