Potential energy surfaces for low-lying electronic states of SO2

The potential energy surfaces for the nine low-lying electronic states of SO2 have been constructed by using the multi-reference second order perturbation theory (MRPT2) with the basis set cc-pVTZ. The optimized geometries and the adiabatic excitation energies of these states are in good agreement with experiments and previous calculations. The crossings and avoided crossings dis- played in the potential energy surfaces are expounded.