Selective Λ-doublet population of OH in inelastic collisions with H2: A possible pump mechanism for the 2Π1/2 astronomical OH maser
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 81 (1), 571-572
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.447340
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