Towards trapping cold molecular nitric oxide

We present a method for filtering, guiding and magnetic trapping of cold molecular nitric oxide (NO). In the filtering process, the low field electric seeking molecules interact with an inhomogeneous electrostatic field of a hexapole guide which is exploited to select the slow molecules from a cold molecular source. The resulting cold fraction in the non-magnetic $^{2}\Pi _{1/2}$ ground state is directed into a magnetic trap where it is optically pumped into the $^{2}\Pi _{3/2 }$fine structure state which is magnetically trapped. Full simulation of the procedure will be presented and progress toward experimental results will be discussed.