The Spectrum of Doubly Ionized Tungsten (W III)

Abstract

The spectrum of doubly ionized tungsten (W III) was produced in a sliding-spark discharge and recorded photographically on the NIST 10.7-m normal-incidence vacuum spectrograph in the 600-2680 Å spectral region. The analysis has led to the establishment of 71 levels of the interacting 5d⁴, 5d³ 6s and 5d² 6s² even configurations and 164 levels of the interacting 5d³ 6p and 5d² 6s 6p odd ones. A total of 2636 lines have been classified as transitions between the 235 experimentally determined levels. Comparison between the observed levels and those calculated from matrix diagonalizations with least-squares fitted parameters shows an rms deviation of ±87 cm^-1 for the even configurations and ±450 cm^-1 for the odd ones.

Keywords: energy levels; parameters; spectra; tungsten; wavelengths.

Figure 1

Tungsten spectra.

Figure 2

Main configurations of W III.