Babb, James
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffApplications of atomic and molecular physics to astrophysics and atmospheric physics; molecular structure; long-range forces
Background And Education
Education And Training
- A.B., Oberlin College
- M.S., New York University
- Ph.D., New York University
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
- Fellow, conferred by American Phsical Society, 2015
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Yan, Pei-Gen and Babb, James F. 2024. "Fine-structure Transitions of Ne , Ar , Ne2 , and Ar2 Induced by Collisions with Atomic Hydrogen." The Astrophysical Journal, 961 43. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0e77. 2024
- Yan, Pei-Gen and Babb, James F. 2023. "Fine-structure transitions of Si and S induced by collisions with atomic hydrogen." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522 1265–1269. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1050. 2023
- Yan, Pei-Gen and Babb, James F. 2023. "Fine-structure transitions of the carbon isoelectronic sequence C, N , and O2 induced by collisions with atomic hydrogen." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518 6004–6010. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3471. 2023
- Courtney, E. D. S., Forrey, R. C., McArdle, R. T., Stancil, P. C., and Babb, J. F. 2021. "Comprehensive Chemistry of HeH in the Early Universe." The Astrophysical Journal, 919 70. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0f57. 2021
- Higa, R. and Babb, J. F. 2021. "Few-Neutron Systems with the Long-Range Casimir-Polder Force." Brazilian Journal of Physics, 51 231–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-020-00849-5. 2021
- Yan, Pei-Gen, Tang, Li-Yan, Yan, Zong-Chao, and Babb, James F. 2021. "Long-range additive and nonadditive potentials in a hybrid system: Ground-state atom, excited-state atom, and ion." Physical Review A, 104 022807. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.022807. 2021
- Yan, Pei-Gen, Tang, Li-Yan, Yan, Zong-Chao, and Babb, James F. 2020. "Long-range interaction of Li (2 2S) -Li (2 2S) -Li (1 1S )." Physical Review A, 101 032702. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.032702. 2020
- Forrey, R. C., Babb, James F., Courtney, E. D. S., McArdle, R. T., and Stancil, P. C. 2020. "Revisiting the Formation of HeH in the Planetary Nebula NGC 7027." The Astrophysical Journal, 898 86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a50. 2020
- Babb, James F., Smyth, R. T., and McLaughlin, B. M. 2019. "Dicarbon Formation in Collisions of Two Carbon Atoms." The Astrophysical Journal, 876 38. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1088. 2019
- Babb, James F., Smyth, Ryan T., and McLaughlin, Brendan M. 2019. "Radiative Association of Atomic and Ionic Carbon." The Astrophysical Journal, 884 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab43cb. 2019
- McLaughlin, Brendan M. and Babb, James F. 2019. "Single photoionization of the Kr-like Rb II ion in the photon energy range 22-46.0 eV." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486 245–250. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz790. 2019
- Felfli, Z., Karman, Tijs, Kharchenko, Vasili, Vrinceanu, D., Babb, James F., and Sadeghpour, Hossein R. 2019. "Theory and simulation of spectral line broadening by exoplanetary atmospheric haze." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482 1330–1337. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2694. 2019
- Froese Fischer, Charlotte and Babb, James F. 2019. "Transition Rates for 3s3p2 4P-3s3p4s 4Po Transitions in Al i." Atoms, 7 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms7020054. 2019
- Yan, Pei-Gen, Tang, Li-Yan, Yan, Zong-Chao, and Babb, James F. 2018. "Calculations of long-range three-body interactions for He(n0lambdaS )-He(n0lambdaS )-He(n0'lambdaL )." Physical Review A, 97 042710. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.042710. 2018
- Forrey, R. C., Babb, J. F., Stancil, P. C., and McLaughlin, B. M. 2018. "Rate constants for the formation of CS by radiative association." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 4727–4734. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1739. 2018
- Ilinova, Ekaterina, Babb, James F., and Derevianko, Andrei. 2017. "Feasibility of an optical fiber clock." Physical Review A, 96 033814. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033814. 2017
- Babb, James F. and McLaughlin, Brendan M. 2017. "Radiative association of C(3P) and H : triplet states." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468 2052–2057. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx630. 2017
- Babb, James F. and McLaughlin, B. M. 2017. "Radiative charge transfer in collisions of C with He ." Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics, 50 044003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa54f4. 2017
- Cairnie, M., Forrey, R. C., Babb, J. F., Stancil, P. C., and McLaughlin, B. M. 2017. "Rate constants for the formation of SiO by radiative association." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 2481–2490. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1715. 2017
- Babb, James F., Côté, Robin, Sadeghpour, Hossein R., and Stancil, Phillip C. 2017. "Special issue on the atomic and molecular processes in the ultracold regime, the chemical regime and astrophysics." Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics, 50 140202. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa779b. 2017
- Yan, Pei-Gen, Tang, Li-Yan, Yan, Zong-Chao, and Babb, James F. 2016. "Calculations of long-range three-body interactions for Li (2 2S)-Li (2 2S)-Li (2 2P)." Physical Review A, 94 022705. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.022705. 2016
- Forrey, Robert C., Babb, James F., Stancil, Phillip C., and McLaughlin, Brendan M. 2016. "Formation of silicon monoxide by radiative association: the impact of resonances." Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics, 49 184002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/18/184002. 2016
- Babb, James F., Sadeghpour, Hossein, and Kirby, Kate. 2015. "Alexander Dalgarno." Physics Today, 68 63–63. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2889. 2015
- Babb, James F. 2015. "State Resolved Data for Radiative Association of H and H and for Photodissociation of H_2^ ." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 216 21. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/216/1/21. 2015
- Zhang, J. -Y, Mitroy, J., Yan, Z. -C, Babb, J. F., Sadeghpour, H. R., and Schwingenschlögl, U. 2013. "Long-range interactions of excited He atoms with the alkaline earth atoms Mg, Ca, and Sr." Journal of Chemical Physics, 138 4317. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4794048. 2013
- Derevianko, Andrei, Porsev, Sergey G., and Babb, James F. 2010. "Electric dipole polarizabilities at imaginary frequencies for hydrogen, the alkali-metal, alkaline- earth, and noble gas atoms." Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, 96 323–331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adt.2009.12.002. 2010
- Tang, Li-Yan, Zhang, Jun-Yi, Yan, Zong-Chao, Shi, Ting-Yun, Babb, James F., and Mitroy, J. 2009. "Calculations of polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities for the Be ion." Physical Review A, 80 42511. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042511. 2009
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department