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J/ApJS/94/221                   New multiplet table for FeI (Nave+, 1994)
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A new multiplet table for FeI
       Nave G., Johansson S., Learner R.C.M., Thorne A.P., Brault J.W.
      <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 94, 221 (1994)>
      =1994ApJS...94..221N      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Atomic physics
Keywords: atomic data - line: identification

Abstract:
    We have recorded spectra of iron-neon and iron-argon hollow cathode
    lamps in the region 1700A-5um (59,000-2000cm^-1^), with Fourier
    transform (FT) spectrometers at the National Solar Observatory,
    Tucson, Arizona, and Imperial College, London, UK, and with a
    high-resolution grating spectrograph at the National Institute of
    Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The uncertainty of
    the strongest lines in the FT spectra is less than 0.002cm^-1^
    (0.2mA at 3000A; 8mA at 2um). Pressure- and current-dependent shifts
    are less than 0.001cm^-1^ for transitions between low-lying levels,
    increasing to 0.006cm^-1^ for transitions between the most highly
    excited levels. We report 28 new energy levels of Fe I and revised
    values of another 818 levels. We have identified 9501 lines as due to
    9759 transitions in Fe I, and these are presented in the form of a new
    multiplet table and finding list. This compares with the ~5500 lines
    due to 467 energy levels in the multiplet tables of Moore (1950, NBS
    Circ., No.488 and 1959, NBS Tech. note 30). The biggest increase is in
    the near-ultraviolet and near infrared, and many of the new lines are
    present in the solar spectrum. Experimental log (gf) values are
    included where they are available. A further 125 unidentified lines
    due to Fe I are given.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1.dat      47        846    Energy levels of FeI
table2.dat     131       9759    New multiplet table for FeI
table4.dat      26       9759    Finding list
table5.dat      27        125    Unidentified lines due to FeI
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 15  A15    ---     Config   Assigned configuration
  17- 26  A10    ---     Term     Term, in order of lowest fine structure level
      28  I1     ---     J        Level value
      30  A1     ---   n_J        [*] '*' for 28 unpublished energy levels
  32- 41  F10.3  cm-1    Level    Energy level
  44- 47  F4.3   cm-1  e_Level    []? rms uncertainty on Level
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units  Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  I4     ---    Num       Multiplet number
   6- 15  A10    ---    Term1     First term designation
      16  A1     ---  n_Term1     Separation symbol '-'
  17- 26  A10    ---    Term2     Second term designation
      28  I1     ---    J1        First J value
      29  A1     ---  n_J1        Separation symbol '-'
      30  I1     ---    J2        Second J value
  31- 36  A6     ---    I         Intensity of the line (1)
  38- 47  F10.4  0.1nm  Lvac      Vacuum wavelength (2)
  49- 58  F10.4  0.1nm  Lair      []? Air wavelength  (3)
  60- 65  F6.1   0.1pm  Lo-R      []? Difference between observed and Ritz
                                   wavelengths (4)
  66- 75  F10.3  cm-1   Sigma     Measured wavenumber (5)
      77  A1     ---  q_Sigma     [A-D] Quality of Sigma (6)
  80- 83  I4     mK     So-R      []? Difference between observed and Ritz
                                   wavenumbers (7)
  85- 89  F5.3   eV     El        Excitation potential of lower level of
                                   transition
  91- 95  F5.3   eV     Eu        Excitation potential of upper level of
                                   transition
  97-105  F9.3  cm-1    Elc       El in units of cm-1
 107-115  F9.3  cm-1    Euc       Eu in units of cm-1
 117-122  F6.2   ---    log(gf)   []? Log of experimental gf values
     124  A1     ---  r_log(gf)   [a-d] Source of log(gf) value (8)
 127-131  A5     ---    Blend     Species of blended line (9)
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Note (1): Intensity in arbitrary units. These are given as log(I) to two
           decimal places for FT spectra. Grating intensities are on a
           different scale to the FT intensities, and are from the
           continuous hollow cathode spectra, except those in parentheses,
           which are from the pulsed hollow cathode. Symbols are:
           d: diffuse; b: blended; *: unresolved; ?: questionable.
Note (2): Vacuum wavelength is derived from the measured wavenumber, Sigma.
           Wavelengths measured in FT spectra are given to 4 decimal places
           and those measured in grating spectra to 3 decimal places in the
           UV. No grating spectra were recorded above 3250 A.
Note (3): Air wavelengths for all lines above 2000 A have been derived
           from the wavenumbers using Edlen dispersion formula given as
           equation 2 in the printed paper. See also note (2).
Note (4): Difference between observed wavelength and the Ritz wavelength
           derived from the energy levels in table 1. This difference should
           be subtracted from Lvac or Lair to obtain the Ritz wavelength.
Note (5): Wavenumbers measured in FT spectra are given to 3 decimal places
           and those measured in grating spectra to 2 decimal places.
Note (6): Quality of measured wavenumber.
             A:  Uncertainty  <  0.005 cm-1.
             B:  Uncertainty  <  0.01 cm-1.
             C:  Uncertainty  <  0.02 cm-1.
             D:  Uncertainty  >  0.02 cm-1 or blended line
           Wavelength uncertainties are given in table 3.
Note (7): Difference between observed wavenumber and the Ritz wavenumber
           derived from the energy levels in table 1. This difference should
           be subtracted from Sigma to obtain the Ritz wavenumber.
Note (8): Sources for log(gf) values are:
            a:  O'Brian et al., 1991, J. Opt. Soc. Am., B8, 1185
            b:  Fuhr et al., 1988, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 17, Suppl. 4
            c:  Meylan et al., 1993ApJS...85..163M
            d:  Johansson et al., 1994ApJ...429..419J
Note (9): Species of blended line:
            I:  Line blended with another Fe I transition
           II:  Line blended with Fe II transition
           Ne:  Line blended with Ne line
           Ar:  Line blended with Ar line
            R:  Line is self-reversed. Ritz wavelengths and wavenumber
                 are given.
            M:  Line is masked by another line of the given species.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes  Format  Units  Label     Explanations
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   1- 10  F10.4   0.1nm  Lambda    Vacuum (<2000A) or air (>2000A) wavelength
  12- 20  F9.3    cm-1   Sigma     Wavenumber
  23- 26  A4      ---    Num       Multiplet number
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat
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   Bytes   Format  Units  Label     Explanations
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   1-  5   F5.2    ---    I         Intensity
   7- 16   F10.4   0.1nm  Lambda    Air wavelength
  18- 27   F10.4   cm-1   Sigma     Wavenumber
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Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 3, 1995
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(End)           Lee Brotzman [ADS] 10-Oct-94, Patricia Bauer [CDS]   16-Feb-1995

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