Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apjs..109..241k&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal Supplement v.109, p.241
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
3
Atomic Data, Atomic Processes
Scientific paper
A spectroscopic model of the neutral nitrogen atom is constructed using published radiative rates and derived approximate collisional excitation rates, giving term populations and allowed and forbidden multiplet intensities for a range of electron temperatures and densities. Figures illustrate the predicted variations of the stronger UV and IR multiplet intensities, which are compared with laboratory- and solar-observed UV line intensities and with IR line intensities observed in a number of astrophysical sources. Reasonable agreement is found for all of the compared UV and IR lines, except for one anomalous solar line. Diagnostic diagrams of allowed/allowed, allowed/forbidden, and forbidden/forbidden line ratios in nitrogen are provided and are applied also to other published observations of nitrogen UV and IR lines.
Bhatia Anand K.
Kastner Sidney O.
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