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J/A+AS/119/509 IRON Project. XVII. Radiative transition in Fe III (Nahar+, 1996)
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Atomic data from the IRON Project. XVII. Radiative transition probability for
dipole allowed forbidden transitions in Fe III.
       Nahar S.N., Pradhan A.K.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 119, 509 (1996)>
      =1996A&AS..119..509N      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Atomic physics
Keywords: atomic data - plasmas - ultraviolet: general - infrared: general -
          optical

Description:
    Table ls.dat contains all LS terms considered in this work and their
    energy values with complete designation. Table aij.dat contains f-,
    S-, and A-values of transitions, both in LS multiplet and in fine
    structure. For the full designation of the terms in the lower table
    check the top energy table. At the end of the lower table, a program
    in Fortran77 is written which can read the tables and calculate
    lifetime values from the A-values.

    Files ls.dat and aij.dat present transitions in Fe III (obs-file) among
    states that have been observed and the calculated energies were replaced
    by the observed energies to improve the accuracy (explained in the Ref).
    Files ls2.dat and aij2.dat (cal-file) contains transitions among the
    rest of the calculated energy states and all the transition energies
    are calculated ones. Hence the two files, one with observed energies
    (obs-file) and one with calculated energies (cal-file) are complement
    to each other with no common transitions.

    The uncertainties of the transition probabilities in cat-file, are
    expected to be higher than those in the obs-file as the observed
    energies are more accurate in general than the calculated ones.

    Total data:
    Septets:
    Number of bound energy terms = 54
    Number of LS transitions = 40 (obs energies), 274 (cal energies)
    Number of fine structure transitions = 354 (obs energies),
                                          3448 (cal energies)
    Quintets:
    Number of bound energy terms = 190
    Number of LS transitions = 423 (obs energies), 3435 (cal energies)
    Number of fine structure transitions= 4756 (obs energies),
                                         37042 (cal energies)
    Triplets:
    Number of bound energy terms = 359
    Number of LS transitions = 712 (obs energies), 12885 (cal energies)
    Number of fine structure transitions= 4451 (obs energies),
                                         80013 (cal energies)
    Singlets:
    Number of bound energy terms = 202
    Number of LS transitions = 233 (obs energies), 3831 (cal energies)
    Number of fine structure transitions = 233 (obs energies),
                                          3831 (cal energies)
    Total no of LS multiplets using observed energies = 1408
    Total no of fjj values with observed energies =  9794
    Total no of LS multiplets using calculated energies = 20425
    Total no of fjj values with calculated energies =  124334
    Total number of f-values using observed and calculated transition
      energies = 134,128

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
aij.dat         80      14027   *fif, s and aji values with observed energies
ls.dat          53        200   *LS terms associated with aij.dat file
aij2.dat        80     185617   *fif, s and aji values with calculated energies
ls2.dat         79        805   *LS terms associated with aij2.dat file
prog.f          80        143    FORTRAN program
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Note on ls.dat:
  The table below contains LS term energies of Fe III. The energies were
   obtained from statistical average of the fine structure levels,
   relative to the ground state. The fine structure energies were
   provided by NIST: the reference is "Atomic Energy Levels of the
   Iron-Period Elements: Potassium through Nickel," J. Sugar and
   C. Corliss, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 14, Suppl. 2 (1985).
   The table also contains the new energy states observed by Ekberg
   at Lund (<J/A+AS/101/1>)
   We use only those states of Ekberg that are not found in the NIST
   compilation. These states are denoted by "Ek" in the energy table
   in the paper.
  Column "E(Ry,abs)" represents absolute term energies where ionization
   energy (-I.P.) has been added to the relative energies "E(Ry,rel)".
  The negative sign for the absolute energies has been omitted for
   convenience.
  "SLpi" stands for the complete symmetry information of the term: 2S+1, L,
   and parity.
  "D" stands for the degeneracy notation chosen for each term and the same
    notation has been used throughout the table for transition quantities.
   The chosen notation supersedes the experimental ones.
Note on aij.dat file:
 1. The units are specified in the title lines of the table except that
     Ei and Ef of the transitional LS terms on the first line are absolute
     values and are in Rydberg units.
 2. Observed energies are used for all transitions in LS multiplets.
 3. An * for the energies of the two transitional fs levels means that one of
     the levels has not been observed. Hence the fs f- and a-values are obtained
     from calculated energies.
 4. An * below a transitional LS term indicates that its obs fine structure
     set of energies is not complete.
 5. An * below the arrow of a transition indicates that the calculated
     transition was in reversed order.
 6. An * on the left of a fine structure transition means that the low and the
     high energy levels belong to the higher and lower LS terms respectively.
Note on ls2.dat:
    A state with * represents incomplete fine structure set.
    Each LS-term is preceded by an alphabetic notation to represent the
     degeneracy of the state. The states of an even parity symmetry are assigned
     with an ascending order and of an odd parity symmetry with a descending
     order of alphabets. However, the order is not maintained in the calculated
     energy states when observed energies do not match the order.
    The states with valence electron represented by "0s" is an equivalent
     electron state and the core configuration given is not correct.
    "SLpi" stands for the complete symmetry information of the term: 2S+1, L,
      and parity.
    "D" stands for the degeneracy notation assigned for each term.
    The same notation has been used throughout the table for transition
     quantities. The assigned notation in this file may not necessarily match
     those in the NIST table.
Note on aij2.dat:
 1. The units are specified in the title lines of the table except that Ei and
     Ef of the transitional LS terms on the first line are absolute values and
     are in Rydberg units; negative sign omitted for convenience.
 2. The calculated energy is replaced by the observed one if one transitional
     state has been observed. The same degeneracy notation of states are
     maintained in the two files, the earlier one and the present one.
 3. The asterisks in the transitions do not have much meaning and should be
     ignored.
 4. The transitions sometime are not ordered in the sequence of initial states.
     They have been rearranged due to the notation adapted for the observed
     energy states.
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See also:
    J/A+AS/103/273 : IRON Project  II     IR collision strengths of C-like ions
    J/A+A/283/319  : IRON Project III     B-like ions
    J/A+AS/108/1   : IRON Project   V     Collision strengths of O-like ions
    J/A+A/293/953  : IRON Project  VI     FeII collision strengths
    J/A+A/293/967  : IRON Project  VII    FeII radiative transitions
    J/A+AS/109/193 : IRON Project VIII    Electron excitation of Ti-like ions
    J/A+AS/119/523 : IRON Project XVIII   Electron impact for Fe III
    J/A+AS/120/361 : IRON Project XIX     Fe II radiative transitions
    J/A+AS/123/159 : IRON Project XXII    C and O radiative rates
    J/A+AS/123/575 : IRON Project XXIII   Fe XXII excitation rate coefficients
    J/A+AS/126/373 : IRON Project XXVII   Fe IV collision strengths
    J/A+AS/131/499 : IRON Project XXIX    Boron isoelectronic sequence
    J/A+AS/131/153 : IRON Project XXXI    Fe XII electron excitation
    J/A+AS/135/347 : IRON Project XXXV    Fe XXIV & Fe XXV oscillator strengths
    J/A+AS/136/395 : IRON Project XXXVII  Fe VI collision strengths
    J/A+AS/137/165 : IRON Project XXXVIII Fe XV electron excitation
    J/A+AS/143/483 : IRON Project XLII    Fe XXI electron impact excitation
    J/A+AS/144/141 : IRON Project XLIII   Fe V transition probabilities

Byte-by-byte Description of file: ls.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1      A1    ---     Mul.      [1357] Multiplet 1=Singlet, 3=Triplet,
                                                   5=Quintet, 7=Septets
   3- 18  A16   ---     config    Configuration
      20  A1    ---   n_SLpi      Assigned degeneracy symbol
  21- 23  A3    ---     SLpi      Symmetry: (2S+1), L, parity of the term
      24  A1    ---     note      [*] State with * represents incomplete fs set
      26  A1    ---     D         Degeneracy notation
  31- 38  F8.6  Ry      E(Ry,abs) Absolute energy
  42- 49  F8.6  Ry      E(Ry,rel) Relative energy
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ls2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2- 16  A15   ---     config    Configuration
      19  A1    ---     D         Degeneracy notation
  20- 26  A7    ---     SLpi      Symmetry: (2S+1), L, parity of the term
  30- 38  F9.6  Ry      E(Ry,abs) Absolute energy
  40- 47  F8.5  Ry      E(Ry,rel) ? Relative energy
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Acknowledgements: Sultana Nahar <nahar@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu>

References:
  1993A&A...279..298H : IRON Project I      Goal and methods
  1994A&AS..107...29S : IRON Project IV     Electron excitation of F-like ions
  1995A&AS..110..209P : IRON Project IX     Electron excitation of Cl-like ion
  1995A&AS..111..347G : IRON Project X      Si- & S-like ions IR coll. strengths
  1996A&AS..115..151S : IRON Project XI     Ar VI, K VII & CaVIII fine-structure
  1995A&AS..114..367B : IRON Project XII    V-like ions electron excitation 
  1996A&AS..115..551B : IRON Project XIII   Ni II & Fe II electron excitation
  1996A&A...309..677S : IRON Project XIV    Fe XIV fine-structure transition 
  1996A&AS..118..157K : IRON Project XV     He II & Fe XXVI Electron excitation 
  1996A&AS..119..105B : IRON Project XVI    Fe V oscillator strengths
  1997A&AS..122..167B : IRON Project XX     Fe I oscillator strengths
  1997A&AS..122..177P : IRON Project XXI    Fe I fine-structure transition
  1997A&AS..126..105B : IRON Project XXIV   Fe XXIV electron excitation
  1998A&AS..127..545B : IRON Project XXV    Fe XII electron excitation
  1997A&AS..126..365B : IRON Project XXVI   Fe IV oscillator strengths
  1998A&AS..129..161B : IRON Project XXVIII F-like ions fine-structure trans.
  1999A&AS..134..369S : IRON Project XXX    P III, S IV & Cl V collision data
  1998A&AS..133..245G : IRON Project XXXII  Ar III effective collision strength
  1999A&AS..135..159M : IRON Project XXXIII  Carbon radiative rates 
  1999A&AS..136..385E : IRON Project XXXIV  Fe XVI electron impact excitation
  1999A&AS..137..175C : IRON Project XXXVI  Fe XXIII electron excitation
  1999A&AS..137..529B : IRON Project XXXIX  Ni II oscillator strengths 
  2000A&AS..141..285S : IRON Project XL     Fe XIV electron excitation
  2000A&AS..142..313B : IRON Project XLI    Fe VII electron excitation
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   25-Mar-1996

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