Ion populations and emitted spectrum of argon plasma have been calculated using the POPULATE and SPECTRA codes of the RATION suite at different conditions (electron temperatures, electron densities, ion densities, plasma size) for LTE and NLTE models. Expected argon plasma spectra at certain electron temperature range have been plotted. The suitable electron temperatures ranges for argon plasma...

Three recent surveys of 21-cm line emission in the Galactic plane, combining single dish and interferometer observations to achieve resolution of 1 to 2, ∼ 1 km s, and good brightness sensitivity, have provided some 650 absorption spectra with corresponding emission spectra for study of the distribution of warm and cool phase HI in the interstellar medium. These emission-absorption spectrum pai...

X-ray emission following charge exchange has been studied on the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory electron beam ion traps EBITI and EBIT-II using a high-resolution microcalorimeter. The measured spectra include the K-shell emission from hydrogenlike and heliumlike C, N, O, and Ne needed for simulations of cometary x-ray emission. A comparison of the spectra produc...

Two-dimensional Fourier transform electronic spectra were recorded for the LH3 light harvesting complex. The spectra reveal the weak coupling between B800 molecules, the ultrafast dynamics within B820 and energy flow from B800 to B850.

We investigate the effects of reduced exciton diffusion on the emission properties in InGaN/GaN multiple-quantum-well nanorods. Time-resolved photoluminescence spectra are recorded and compared in dry-etched InGaN/GaN nanorods and parent multiple quantum wells at various temperatures with carrier density in different regimes. Faster carrier recombination and absence of delayed rise in the emiss...

We have measured the emission spectra of two-level-like atoms driven by a spatially inhomogeneous bichromatic field comprised of one resonant and one off-resonant component. Under these excitation conditions, observed spectra consist of several narrow peaks appearing on top of a broad continuumlike structure. This experimental approach provides for selective observation of those spectral featur...

Zinc lithium bismuth borate glasses containing Er in (25x): Bi2O3:20Li2O:20ZnO: 35B2O3:xEr2O3 (where x=1, 1.5,2 mol %) have been prepared by melt-quenching method. The amorphous nature of the glasses was confirmed by x-ray diffraction studies. Optical absorption and fluorescence spectra were recorded at room temperature for all glass samples. Judd-Ofelt intensity parameters Ωλ (λ=2, 4, 6) are e...

Planar array infrared spectroscopy (PA-IR) is shown to be a powerful new approach to infrared emission spectroscopy (IRES). A proof-of-concept study of selected polymers indicates that PA-IRES allows acquisition of emission spectra with a high signal-to-noise ratio at temperatures as low as 80 degrees C. It is shown that a time resolution below 20 ms is readily achievable for time-resolved char...

High resolution optical (4193–6619 Å) spectra of Io in eclipse show auroral emission in five lines: [OI] 6300, 6363, 5577 Å and Na 5889, 5896 Å. We conclude that Io’s diffuse red emissions imaged by the Galileo Solid State Imager (Geissler et al. 1999) are due to impact or dissociative excitation of oxygen, while diffuse green emissions are caused by the impact or dissociative excitation of sod...

Aims. We investigate whether the so-called kappa distribution, often used to fit electron distributions detected in-situ in solar wind, can describe electrons producing the hard X-ray emission in solar flares. Methods. Using Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic imager (RHESSI) flare data we fit spatially and feature integrated spectra assuming kappa distribution for mean electron flux spectru...