The FERRUM project: experimental lifetimes of highly excited Fe II 3d64p levels and transition probabilities

C M Sikström, M Schultz-Johanning, M Kock, Z-S Li, H Nilsson, S Johansson, H Lundberg, A J J Raassen
1999 Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  
We report on measurements of radiative lifetimes in singly ionized iron of six 3d 6 4p levels between 61 512 and 64 041 cm −1 , using time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence. Absolute oscillator strengths of 18 Fe II lines in the wavelength range from 2350 to 2800 Å have been obtained by measuring branching fractions for the lines from two Fe II levels with a Fouriertransform spectrometer. The uncertainty in the lifetimes is between 8% and 13%, whereas the uncertainty of the f -values varies
more » ... tween 9% and 19%. A comparison with several previously published values is given.
doi:10.1088/0953-4075/32/24/306 fatcat:4pjx4jrsxrfjphenvy4evgv6w4