R-matrix calculations combined with the adiabatic-nuclei-rotation and Coulomb-Born approximations are used to compute electron-impact rotational rate coefficients for two open-shell diatomic cations of astrophysical interest: the hydoxyl and sulphanyl ions, OH and SH. Hyperfine resolved rate coefficients are deduced using the infinite-order-sudden approximation. The propensity rule is observed, as is expected for cations with a large dipole moment. A model for OH excitation in the Orion Bar photon-dominated region (PDR) is presented which nicely reproduces Herschel observations for an electron fraction and an OH column density of ~cm. Electron impact electronic excitation cross sections and rate coefficients for the ions are also presented.

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