Worldwide Molecular Astrophysics Resources

Molecules in space

List of molecules detected in space

Spectroscopy

Harvard-Smithsonian Atomic and Molecular Physics Data Base

HITRAN

NASA's Molecular Spectroscopy Home Page (including JPL catalogue)

Microwave spectroscopy (Lovas catalogue)

Homepage of the CCP7 project (UK project on the Analysis of Astronomical Spectra)

Harvard-Smithsonian Far-Infrared Spectroscopy group

Chemical kinetics and reaction rates

NIST Chemical Kinetics Data base

Collisional rate coefficients

UMIST Home Page (which also has the UMIST reaction rate database)

Grains and ices

Data base of astrophysical ices

Optical data of Cosmic Dust Analogues

Observations

Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)

Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Swedish ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST)

Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)

Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA)

Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

Astrochemistry groups

United Kingdom

Royal Society of Chemistry, astrophysical chemistry group

UCL Molecular Astrophysics Group (London)

UMIST Astrophysics group (Manchester)

EC TMR Network 'Astrophysical Chemistry: Experiments, Calculations and Astrophysical Consequences of Reactions at Low Temperatures'

Netherlands

Leiden Molecular Astrophysics group

Germany

Jena Laboratory Astrophysics Group

(Please inform us about other interesting links !)

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