An isotopic-independent, highly accurate potential energy surface (PES) has been determined for CO2 by refining a purely ab initio PES with selected, purely experimentally determined rovibrational energy levels. The purely ab initio PES is denoted Ames-0, while the refined PES is denoted Ames-1. Detailed tests are performed to demonstrate the spectroscopic accuracy of the Ames-1 PES. It is shown that Ames-1 yields σ rms (root-mean-squares error) = 0.0156 cm−1 for 6873 J = 0–117 12C16O2 experimental energy levels, even though less than 500 12C16O2 energy levels were included in the refinement procedure. It is also demonstrated that, without any additional refinement, Ames-1 yields very good agreement for isotopologues. Specifically, for the 12C16O2 and 13C16O2 isotopologues, spectroscopic constants G v computed from Ames-1 are within ±0.01 and 0.02 cm−1 of reliable experimentally derived values, while for the 16O12C18O, 16O12C17O, 16O13C18O, 16O13C17O, 12C18O2, 17O12C18O, 12C17O2, 13C18O2, 13C17O2, 17O13C18O, and 14C16O2 isotopologues, the differences are between ±0.10 and 0.15 cm−1. To our knowledge, this is the first time a polyatomic PES has been refined using such high J values, and this has led to new challenges in the refinement procedure. An initial high quality, purely ab initiodipole moment surface (DMS) is constructed and used to generate a 296 K line list. For most bands, experimental IR intensities are well reproduced for 12C16O2 using Ames-1 and the DMS. For more than 80% of the bands, the experimental intensities are reproduced with σ rms(ΔI) < 20% or σ rms(ΔI/δ obs) < 5. A few exceptions are analyzed and discussed. Directions for future improvements are discussed, though it is concluded that the current Ames-1 and the DMS should be useful in analyzing and assigning high-resolution laboratory or astronomical spectra.
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