Global Modeling of CO₂ Discharges with Aerospace Applications

Table 1

Structure description of the states of CO₂ as included in the GM.

	Configuration	Energy (eV)	Type	Excitation energy sources	Excitation cross sections sources
1		0.
2	(010)	0.083		[16, 17]	a, b in [16]
3	(100)	0.172		[16, 17]	b, c in [16]
4	(001)	0.29		[16, 17]	a, b in [16]
5	^3	8.15	Forbidden	d in [16]	e in [15]
6	^3	8.73	Forbidden	d in [16]	e in [15]
7	^3	8.80	Forbidden	d in [16]	e in [15]
8	^1	8.93	Allowed	d in [16]	e in [15]
9	^1	9.32	Allowed	d in [16]	e in [15]
10	^1	11.00	Allowed	d in [16]	e in [15]
11	^3	11.31	Forbidden	d in [16]	e in [15]
12	^1	11.39	Allowed	d in [16]	e in [15]

a: Nakamura [18]; b: Kitajima et al. [19]; c: Kochem et al. [20]; d: Nakatsuji [21] as reported in [16]; e: extrapolated in the low energy region following the Quasi-Classical approximation.