Experimental Stark Widths and Shifts for Spectral Lines of Positive Ions (A Critical Review and Tabulation of Selected Data for the Period 1976 to 1982)

Abstract

A new critical review of the available experimental data on the Stark widths and shifts for lines of non-hydrogenic ionized spectra has been carried out which covers the period from 1976 to the present and represents a continuation of an earlier critical review. The relevant literature, compiled by the NBS Data Center on Atomic Lines Shapes and Shifts as well as by the present authors, was critically evaluated, and data tables containing the selected experimental Stark broadening parameters have been assembled. The data are arranged according to spectra and elements and these are presented in alphabetical order. The accuracy of the experimental data is estimated on the basis of guidelines developed during the previous review. Comparisons with theoretical results are made whenever possible since the comparison with theory has often been a principal motivation for the experiments.