Comments on alternative calculations of the broadening of spectral lines of neutral sodium by H-atom collisions

Details Comments on alternative calculations of the broadening of spectral lines of neutral sodium by H-atom collisions Comments on alternative calculations of the broadening of spectral lines of neutral sodium by H-atom collisions

2001-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110106v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 5 ps figures included, to appear in J Phys B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-4075/34/23/321

With the exception of the sodium D-lines recent calculations of line broadening cross-sections for several multiplets of sodium by Leininger et al (2000) are in substantial disagreement with cross-sections interpolated from the tables of Anstee and O'Mara (1995) and Barklem and O'Mara (1997). The discrepancy is as large as a factor of three for the 3p-4d multiplet. The two theories are tested by using the results of each to synthesize lines in the solar spectrum. It is found that generally the data from the theory of Anstee, Barklem and O'Mara produce the best match to the observed solar spectrum. It is found, using a simple model for reflection of the optical electron by the potential barrier between the two atoms, that the reflection coefficient is too large for avoided crossings with the upper states of subordinate lines to contribute to line broadening, supporting the neglect of avoided ionic crossings by Anstee, Barklem and O'Mara for these lines. The large discrepancies between the two sets of calculations is a result of an approximate treatment of avoided ionic crossings for these lines by Leininger et al (2000).

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