Population Distribution of Triplet Vibrational Levels of CO Produced by Photodissociation of CO2

Abstract

The CO fluorescence of the a′ ³Σ⁺, d³Δ_i, and e³Σ⁻ → a³Π systems, produced by photodissociation of CO₂ is identified and analyzed and the population distributions of the vibrational levels of the a′ ³Σ⁺ and d³Δ_i states are obtained. The data are found to be reasonably represented by a Poisson distribution.