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The eleven energetically lowest pure rotational transitions, J ← J − 1 (J = 1, 2,... ,11), of H 13 CN, H 13 C 15 N, and HC 15 N in the ground and first excited bending state were measured. By operating the Cologne Tetrahertz Wave Spectrometer up to 1 THz in the sub-Doppler mode, a transition frequency accuracy of a few kHz is achieved. These measurements were carried out at frequencies between 80 -950 GHz. In addition, some transitions of the three isotopomers with rotational quantum numbers J = 20, 21, 22, 23 have been measured in Doppler-limited resolution near 2 THz, using the frequency stabilized Cologne Sideband Spectrometer for Terahertz Applications (COSSTA). Furthermore, direct l-type transitions of H 13 CN in the first excited bending state with J up to 35 have been measured. These new data are of particular importance, since we discovered highly excited circumstellar H 12 CN recently. A global fit of the newly enlarged data set together with existing carefully screened ro-vibrational data yields molecular constants which are highly reliable and of great importance both for astrophysical observations and laboratory applications.

Very high-resolution ( ∼ 30 kHz) and very precise (±2 kHz) saturation dip and crossover dip measurements are reported for HCN. Nine consecutive rotational transitions of the vibrational ground state were recorded, covering the rotational spectrum up to the J = 11 ← 10 transition at 975 GHz. Commencing the saturation dip measurements with the J = 3 ← 2 transition located at 265 886.4 MHz, all rotational transitions were measured up to J = 11 ← 10 (ΔF = 1), positioned at a center frequency of 974 487.2 MHz. It has become possible to resolve the hyperfine structure of every rotational transition to varying degrees. Transitions obeying the selection rules ΔJ = 1, ΔF = 0 are have been resolved, those obeying the selection rules J = 1, F = 1 are only resolved for transitions lower than the J = 6 ← 5 transition.These new experimental saturation dip data, together with the molecular beam maser emission data of the J = 1 → 0 and J = 2 → 1 transitions reported by De Lucia and Gordy, (Phys. Rev.Two constants, the hydrogenWe also report the discovery of the J = 3 → 2 and J = 4 → 3 ground state rotational transitions of HCN in the dark, cold molecular cloud TMC1 by using the KOSMA 3m-Submillimeter Telescope located in the central Swiss Alps. For the J = 3 → 2 transition the hyperfine splitting has partly been resolved. The intensities of the hyperfine components are anomalous, and they are not in thermodynamic equilibrium.