NASA: Ames Research Center: The Astrophysics & Astrochemistry Laboratory

Cookbook

NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database

The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database [1] [2] (PAHdb hereafter) hosts the world’s foremost collection of infrared (IR) PAH spectra. PAHdb’s spectral libraries contain over 3,000 laboratory measured and quantum chemically computed PAH spectra. Beyond spectroscopic data, PAHdb also provides software tools to work with the spectral data. The portal to the data and tools is the PAHdb website, which is located at https://www.astrochemistry.org/pahdb. This is the PAHdb cookbook that provides an overview of the Application Programming Interface used for the software tools and a collection of recipes for data analysis.

Please consult the Document Portal and PAHdb website for additional resources and information.

Last updated September 2024

Footnotes

[1]

Since FY2019 the NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database is being supported through a directed Work Package at NASA Ames titled: “Laboratory Astrophysics –- The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database”.

[2]

Since FY2023 the NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database is being supported through the Laboratory Astrophysics Round 2 directed Work Package at NASA Ames.