Comparison of New Experimental and Astrophysical f-Values for Some RU II Lines, Observed in HST Spectra of chi LUPI
Wahlgren, Glenn M.; Leckrone, David S.; Johansson, Sveneric G.; Joueizadeh, Ali; Litzen, Ulf; Larsson, Jorgen; Persson, Anders; Wahlstrom, Claes-Goran; Svanberg, Sune
Sweden, United States
Abstract
We report an experimental absolute oscillator strengths for 18 UV lines of Ru II, obtained by combining laser-induced flourescence measurements of radiative lifetimes and branching fractions from line intensities in a calibrated Fourier-transform spectrum Hubble Space Telescope/Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (HST/GHRS) observations of the spectrum of the sharp-lined B star chi Lupi contain six of these lines, for which 'astrophysical' relative f-values have been determined. The agreement is within 0.10 dex for a Ru abundance of log N(Ru)/N(H) = -7.90, which is 2.3 dex above the solar abundance.