Relative Multiplet Strengths in LS Coupling
Abstract
The relative strengths of different multiplets in LS coupling have been calculated and tabulated for sixty-five transition arrays of astrophysical interest. In arrays where the jumping electron belongs to a shell of three or more equivalent electrons, the method of Condon and IJiford was employed; all other cases were dealt with by the extension of Kronig's formulae to relative multiplet strengths, according to the methods outlined by Shortley. A description of the Condon-TJfford method is given, together with an illus- tration of its application to the transition array p3 -p2s. It is shown, also, that in apply- ing this method, it is necessary to write down the zero-order states of only one configura- tion, that involving the smallest number of terms
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1935
- DOI:
- 10.1086/143654
- Bibcode:
- 1935ApJ....82....1G