Accurate laboratory ultraviolet wavelengths for quasar absorption-line constraints on varying fundamental constants

Details Accurate laboratory ultraviolet wavelengths for quasar absorption-line constraints on varying fundamental constants Accurate laboratory ultraviolet wavelengths for quasar absorption-line constraints on varying fundamental constants

2006-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605053v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:444-452,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 10 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10491.x

The most precise method of investigating possible space-time variations of the fine-structure constant, using high-redshift quasar absorption lines, is the many-multiplet (MM) method. For reliable results this method requires very accurate relative laboratory wavelengths for a number of UV resonance transitions from several different ionic species. For this purpose laboratory wavelengths and wavenumbers of 23 UV lines from MgI, MgII, TiII, CrII, MnII, FeII and ZnII have been measured using high-resolution Fourier Transform (FT) spectrometry. The spectra of the different ions (except for one FeII line, one MgI line and the TiII lines) are all measured simultaneously in the same FT spectrometry recording by using a composite hollow cathode as a light source. This decreases the relative uncertainties of all the wavelengths. In addition to any measurement uncertainty, the wavelength uncertainty is determined by that of the ArII calibration lines, by possible pressure shifts and by illumination effects. The absolute wavenumbers have uncertainties of typically 0.001 to 0.002 cm^(-1) (0.06 to 0.1 mAA at 2500 AA), while the relative wavenumbers for strong, symmetric lines in the same spectral recording have uncertainties of 0.0005 cm^(-1) (0.03 mAA at 2500 AA) or better, depending mostly on uncertainties in the line fitting procedure. This high relative precision greatly reduces the potential for systematic effects in the MM method, while the new TiII measurements now allow these transitions to be used in MM analyses.

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