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J/A+AS/147/253      IRON Project. XLV. Ar XIII and Fe XXI    (Nahar, 2000)
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Atomic data from the Iron Project XLV.
Relativistic transition probabilities for carbon-like Ar XIII and Fe XXI
using Breit-Paili R-matrix method
      Nahar S.N.
     <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 147, 253 (2000)>
     =2000A&AS..147..253N
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ADC_Keywords: Atomic physics
Keywords: atomic data

Abstract:
    The Breit-Pauli R-matrix method developed under the Iron Project has
    been used to obtain extensive sets of oscillator strengths and
    transition probabilities for dipole allowed and intercombination fine
    structure transitions in carbon like ions, Ar XIII and Fe XXI. The
    complete set consists of 1274 fine structure bound energy levels and
    198259 oscillator strengths for Ar XIII, and 1611 bound levels and
    300079 oscillator strengths for Fe XXI. These correspond to levels of
    total angular momenta of 0<=J<=7 of even and odd parities formed from
    total spin of 2S+1=5, 3, 1, and orbital angular momenta 0<=L<=9 with
    n<=10, 0<=l<=9 for each ion. The relativistic effects are included in
    the Breit-Pauli approximation. The close coupling wavefunction
    expansion for each ion is represented by the lowest 15 fine structure
    levels of target configurations, 2s^2^2p, 2s2p^2^ and 2p^3^. The
    energy levels are identified spectroscopically using a newly developed
    identification procedure. The procedure also makes a correspondence
    between the fine structure energy levels and LS terms. This provides
    the check for completeness of the calculated levels. Comparison is
    made of the present energies and the f-values with the available
    observed and theoretical values. Present transition probabilities
    agree very well with the relativistic atomic structure calculations of
    Mendoza et al. for the intercombination transitions,
    2s2p^3^(^5^S{deg}_2_) - 2s^2^2p^2^(^3^P_1,2_,^1^D_2_). This further
    indicates that the importance of the neglected Breit interaction
    decreases with ion charge and constrains the uncertainty in the
    present calculations to within 15% even for the weak transitions.

File Summary:
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 FileName     Lrecl  Records  Explanations
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ReadMe           80        .  This file
table2a.dat      68     1274  Ar XIII identified fine structure energy levels,
                               ordered in J{pi}
table2b.dat      90     1802  Ar XIII identified fine structure energy levels,
                               ordered in energy and grouped as LS terms
table3a.dat      68     1611  Fe XXI identified fine structure energy levels,
                               ordered in J{pi}
table3b.dat      75     2247  Fe XXI identified fine structure energy levels,
                               ordered in energy and grouped as LS terms
tranfe21.dat     67   300122  Ar XIII complete table of transition probabilities
tranar13.dat     67   198303  Fe XXI complete table of transition probabilities
table7a.dat      82      333  Ar XIII oscillator strengths where observed
                               energies are used
table7b.dat      82      390  Ar XIII oscillator strengths from table7a.dat,
                               but ordered in energy and grouped according to
                               components of same LS multiplets
table8a.dat      82      184  Fe XXI oscillator strengths where observed
                               energies are used
table8b.dat      82      228  Fe XXI oscillator strengths from table8a.dat,
                               but ordered in energy and grouped according to
                               components of same LS multiplets
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Description of file: table2b.dat, table3b.dat
             Total number of levels processed= 1274 for table2b.dat,
                                               1611 for table3b.dat

           Nlv=Number of levels expected
        Nlv(c)=Number of levels obtained
           Nlv=Nlv(c) -> set complete
          For Equivalent electron levels:
                (i) no EQN (effective qn)
                (ii) no check of set completeness


    First lines (table2b.dat):

        Configuration           J          E(Ry)     EQN     LS terms

     Eqv electron/unidentified levels, parity: e
     2s22p2                     0       -5.04159E+01          3 P e
     2s22p2                     1       -5.03260E+01          3 P e
     2s22p2                     2       -5.02091E+01          3 P e
     Nlv(c)=  3 : set complete
     Eqv electron/unidentified levels, parity: e
     2s22p2                     2       -4.96213E+01          1 D e
     Nlv(c)=  1 : set complete
     Eqv electron/unidentified levels, parity: e

Description of file: tranar13.dat, tranfe21.dat
   First line - The two numbers in the table are the nuclear charge
   (Z = 18 for Ar XIII and Z = 26 for Fe XXI)
   and the number of electrons (N_{elc} = 6) in the ion, Ar XIII or Fe XXI.
   Below the above line, sets of transitions of a pair of symmetries
   J{pi} - J'{pi}' are given.

   For each set:
   The first line - 2Ji, parity {pi} (=0 for even and =1 for odd),
   2Jk and {pi}k, the symmetries of transitions.
   The second line - N_{Ji} and N_{Jk}, the number of bound levels for
   of the two symmetries.
   This line is followed by N_{Ji} x N_{Jk} number of transitions.
   For each transition the first two columns are the level indices, I_i_
   and I_k_ for the energies.
   The third and the fourth columns are the energies, E_i_ and E_k_.
   The fifth column is gf_L_ where g=2J+1 (J is the total angular momentum
   of the lower level).
   The sixth column is S (line strength).
   The last column is the transition probability, A_{ki}(sec^-1^).
   If a gf-value is negative the lower level is i (absorption) and if it is
   positive, the lower level is k (emission). The identification of the
   transition can be determined from the levels of indices I_i_ and I_k_
   in Table 2a for tranar13.dat and Table 3a for transfe21.dat.

   First lines (tranar13.dat):

        18         6
    0    0         2    1
   56  136    Ei(Ry)     Ej(Ry)       gfL         S       Aji(s-1)
   1   1 -5.04159E+01 -4.65272E+01 -7.432E-02  5.734E-02  3.009E+09
   1   2 -5.04159E+01 -4.58436E+01 -3.719E-02  2.440E-02  2.082E+09
   1   3 -5.04159E+01 -4.45972E+01 -7.896E-02  4.071E-02  7.158E+09
   1   4 -5.04159E+01 -4.39490E+01 -8.538E-03  3.961E-03  9.561E+08
   1   5 -5.04159E+01 -2.20006E+01 -5.614E-02  5.927E-03  1.214E+11
   1   6 -5.04159E+01 -2.17248E+01 -3.410E-04  3.566E-05  7.517E+08

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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      Fe II collision strengths
    J/A+A/293/967  : IRON Project VII     Fe II radiative transitions
    J/A+AS/109/193 : IRON Project VIII    Electron excitation of Ti-like ions
    J/A+AS/119/509 : IRON Project XVII    Radiative transition in Fe III
    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 fine-structure transitions
    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
    J/A+AS/147/111 : IRON Project XLIV    Fe VI trans. prob. & line ratio
    J/A+A/365/268  : IRON Project XLVII   Ni III electron impact excitation

Table 1: Target levels of Ar XIV (Fe XXII) in the
         eigenfunction expansion of Ar XIII (Fe XXI)
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    Config    SLp    J    Ar XIV E(Ry)      Fe XXII E(Ry)
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  1 2s22p     2Po   1/2   0.00000E+00       0.00000E+00
  2 2s22p     2Po   3/2   2.06470E-01       1.07776E+00
  3 2s2p2     4Pe   1/2   1.79250E+00       3.68653E+00
  4 2s2p2     4Pe   3/2   1.87090E+00       4.19365E+00
  5 2s2p2     4Pe   5/2   1.97560E+00       4.67717E+00
  6 2s2p2     2De   3/2   3.73870E+00       6.71166E+00
  7 2s2p2     2De   5/2   3.74710E+00       6.92217E+00
  8 2s2p2     2Se   1/2   4.68780E+00       7.77748E+00
  9 2s2p2     2Pe   1/2   4.96850E+00       8.91420E+00
 10 2s2p2     2Pe   3/2   5.05440E+00       9.04241E+00
 11 2p3       4So   3/2   6.24550E+00       1.14428E+01
 12 2p3       2Do   3/2   7.11150E+00       1.27251E+01
 13 2p3       2Do   5/2   7.13610E+00       1.30027E+01
 14 2p3       2Po   1/2   8.03010E+00       1.43035E+01
 15 2p3       2Po   3/2   8.07110E+00       1.48329E+01
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 Notes:  Ar XIV: Z = 18, No. of core electrons =  5
        Fe XXII: Z = 26, No. of core electrons =  5
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2a.dat, table3a.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  3  I3    ---     Nlv       Number of levels (1)
   5- 11  A7    ---     Jpi       Spin symmetry level
  13- 15  I3    ---     Level     Level
  17- 32  A16   ---     T         Target (config SLpi Jt) of the level
  34- 36  A3    ---     nl        Principal and orbital quantum numbers of
                                   the outer electron
      39  I1    ---     J         Total angular momentum of the lower level
  42- 53  E12.5 Ry      E         Energy
  55- 59  F5.2  ---     EQN       ? Effective Quantum Number (2)
  62- 68  A7    ---     Terms     Possible LS terms of the energy level
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Note (1):  Number of fine structure levels:
                          -------------------------------
                                     Ar XIII   Fe XXI
                             J pi    Nlv(c)    Nlv(c)
                          -------------------------------
                             0  0     56        64
                             0  1     53        61
                             2  0    131       153
                             2  1    136       157
                             4  0    157       187
                             4  1    156       185
                             6  0    129       159
                             6  1    129       159
                             8  0     90       114
                             8  1     84       116
                            10  0     47        75
                            10  1     41        69
                            12  0     25        36
                            12  1     20        38
                            14  0     10        16
                            14  1     10        22
                          -------------------------------
 Total number of levels =           1274      1611

Note (2): No EQN is assigned for Equivalent electron levels
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Table 9: Calculated energy level indices for various J{pi}
         that have been observed
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 Allowed transitions among the following levels have been reprocessed with
 observed energies to improve the accuracy:
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             FINE STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS IN Ar XIII
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 J pi  nlv  levels
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 0 e    3   1,2,3
 0 o    6   1,2,3,8,12,18
 1 e    2   1,2
 1 o   17   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,16,18,20,21,30,31,43,45
 2 e    5   1,2,3,4,14
 2 o   15   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,15,16,19,29,44,46
 3 e    1   6
 3 o    5   1,2,3,4,8
 4 o    1   1
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             FINE STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS IN Fe XXI
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 J pi  nlv  levels
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 0 e    4   1,2,3,4
 0 o    1   1
 1 e    2   1,2
 1 o    8   1,2,3,4,11,39,40,67
 2 e    4   1,2,3,4
 2 o   11   1,2,3,4,6,8,9,39,40,41,72
 3 o    9   1,2,3,4,22,23,24,50,51
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table7a.dat, table7b.dat, table8a.dat
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table8b.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label  Explanations
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   1- 12  A12   ---     Ci     Configurations of the level i (1)
  14- 25  A12   ---     Cf     Configurations of the level j
  27- 29  A3    ----    slpi   Initial core level
  31- 33  A3    ---     slpf   Final core level
  35- 36  I2    ---     Ji     Lower J-value
  38- 39  I2    ---     Ni     ? Energy level index of lower J-value
  41- 42  I2    ---     Jf     Upper J-value
  44- 45  I2    ---     Nf     ? Energy level index of upper J-value
  47- 54  F8.4  Ry      Ei     Initial energy
  56- 63  F8.4  Ry      Ef     Final energy
  65- 73  E9.3  ---     f      f value
  75- 82  E8.2  s-1     A      A value
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Note (1): For table7a.dat and table7b.dat (Ar XIII):
      nz = 18, No. of core electrons = 5, No of transitions = 333
      For table8a.dat and table8b.dat (Fe XXI):
      nz = 26, No. of core electrons = 5, No of transitions = 184
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Acknowledgements: Sultana Nahar <nahar@astronomy.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
  2001A&A...365..258P : IRON Project XLVI   Fe X electron excitation
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(End)                                          Patricia Bauer [CDS]  21-Sep-2000

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