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Comment on Argon I Lines Produced in a Hollow Cathode Source, 332 nm to 5865 nm

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Author(s)

Craig J. Sansonetti

Abstract

Recent observations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology indicate that the Ar I wavenumbers reported by Whaling et al. [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 107, 149 (2002)] are systematically too large. To investigate the source of this problem, selected lines of Ar I and Ar II were remeasured in the same spectra used by Whaling et al. The measurements show that the Ar I wavenumbers of Whaling et al. are systematically shifted with respect to the Ar II wavenumbers previously reported by Whaling et al. [J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 53, 1 (1995)] based on the same spectra. The Ar I wavenumbers can be corrected by a constant multiplicative correction of 0.999999933.
Citation
Journal of Research (NIST JRES) -
Volume
112 No. 6

Keywords

argon, atomic spectroscopy, Fourier transform spectroscopy, wavelengths

Citation

Sansonetti, C. (2008), Comment on Argon I Lines Produced in a Hollow Cathode Source, 332 nm to 5865 nm, Journal of Research (NIST JRES), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed May 4, 2024)
Created January 1, 2008, Updated February 17, 2017