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New method for determining relative oscillator strengths of atoms through combined absorption and emission measurements - Application to titanium /Ti I/The paper introduces a procedure that combines measurements of absorption and emission by atoms to obtain relative oscillator strengths that are independent of temperature determination in the sources and of assumptions regarding local thermodynamic equilibrium. The experimental observations are formed into sets of transitions and required to satisfy defined ratios. The procedure is illustrated with the published data of Whaling et al. and Smith and Kuehne for 16 transitions in Ti I. It is shown that the relative oscillator strengths resulting from this procedure have calculated uncertainties between 5 and 17% (about 95% confidence level). Evidence is presented to suggest that these uncertainties have been overestimated.
Document ID
19800035044
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Cardon, B. L.
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA, United States)
Smith, P. L.
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Mass., United States)
Whaling, W.
(California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Calif., United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1979
Publication Information
Publication: Physical Review A - General Physics
Subject Category
Atomic And Molecular Physics
Accession Number
80A19214
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-76-83685
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGL-22-007-006
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-76-81607
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Public
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