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Forbidden Atomic Lines in Auroral Spectra

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Atoms in Astrophysics

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By way of background information we give in Table 1 the origins of the forbidden multiplets of interest together with representative values of their intensities in an International Brightness Coefficient (IBC) 3 aurora; and we give in Table 2 the excitation energies and the Einstein A transition probabilities. In terms of the intensity of λ5577 Å, the IBC scale, which is logarithmic, runs from 1 kR for IBC 1 to 1000 kR for IBC 4. It is appropriate to mention here that the earliest calibration of the scale was made by Seaton.(1)

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Bates, D.R. (1983). Forbidden Atomic Lines in Auroral Spectra. In: Burke, P.G., Eissner, W.B., Hummer, D.G., Percival, I.C. (eds) Atoms in Astrophysics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3536-8_10

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