A high resolution line list for AlO
Abstract Indications of aluminium monoxide in atmospheres of exoplanets are being reported. Studies using high resolution spectroscopy should allow a strong detection but require high accuracy laboratory data. A Marvel (measured active rotational-vibrational energy levels) analysis is performed for the available spectroscopic data on 27Al16O: 22 473 validated transitions are used to determine 6 485 distinct energy levels. These empirical energy levels are used to provide an improved, spectroscopically accurate version of the ExoMol ATP line list for 27Al16O; at the same time the accuracy of the line lists for the isotopically-substituted species 26Al16O, 27Al17O and 27Al18O are improved by correcting levels in line with the corrections used for 27Al16O. These line lists are available from the ExoMol database at http://www.exomol.com.