Multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of the transition rates of 2s22p2 - 2s2p3 and 2s2p3 - 2s22pnl (n ≥ 3) E1 transitions of N+
Abstract
Wavefunctions were determined using the multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock method. The core-core, core-valence, valence correlation, Breit interaction and quantum electrodynamics effects, as well as some higher-order correlation effects, were considered to obtain accurate wavelengths (λ), oscillator strengths (gf) and transition rates (A) of 2s22p2 - 2s2p3, 2s2p3 - 2s22pnl (n ≥ 3) and 2s2p3 - 2s2p23s E1 transitions. The branching ratio of 2s2p3 5S^o_2 (namely Aλ2143.45/Aλ2139.68) based on the latest calculation of 2.462 ± 0.119 is recommended for the determination of a nebula's electron temperature and electron density. The largest calculated gf value of 2s2p3 - 2s22p4p is λ630.65, differing from that of λ1060.2 (I.e. 2s2p3 3P^o_2 - 2s22p4p 3S1) that was observed with the largest intensities in the Orion Nebula spectrum. In addition, the energy levels and the splittings of 2s2p3, the extremely difficult calculations of the rates of two-electron one-photon transitions as well as those of the very small intercombination A of 2s2p3 5S^o_2 were studied in detail. Because of the weak spin-orbit interaction, accurately calculating the levels 3P^o_{1,2,0} (or 3D^o_{3,2,1}) and their transition matrix elements is very sensitive to relativistic and electron correlation effects. A special case for this is when the transition operators synchronously applied to wavefunctions with regard to 2s2p3 3Po and 2s22pnl (n = 4) become extremely sensitive to some higher-order correlation effects.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stw1648
- Bibcode:
- 2016MNRAS.462.1203S
- Keywords:
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- atomic data;
- line: identification;
- methods: data analysis