An emission spectrum of hot water with a temperature of about 3000 K is obtained using an oxy-acetylene torch. This spectrum contains a very large number of transitions. The spectrum, along with previous cooler laboratory emission spectra and an absorption spectrum recorded from a sunspot, is analyzed in the 500-2000 cm(-1) region. Use of a calculated variational linelist for water allows significant progress to be made on assigning transitions involving highly excited vibrational and rotational states. In particular emission from rotationally excited states up to J=42 and vibrational levels with up to eight quanta of bending motion are assigned. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
Coheur, P., Bernath, P., Carleer, M., Colin, R., Polyansky, O., Zobov, N., Shirin, S., Barber, R., & Tennyson, J. (2005). A 3000 K laboratory emission spectrum of water. Journal of Chemical Physics, 122(7). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1847571 (Original work published 2005)