Temperature Dependence of the Total Integrated Intensity of Vibrational—Rotational Band Systems

Abstract

The temperature dependencies of the total integrated intensities of vibrational—rotational band systems are discussed and general expressions are given for the temperature dependencies for the harmonic oscillator approximation. The derived dependencies indicate that while the total integrated intensity of a fundamental is independent of temperature, the integrated intensity of an overtone or combination band system increases with increasing temperature. The theoretically derived temperature dependencies are compared with available experimental data and good agreement is found where self absorption within the test gas does not influence the experimental results.