Vibrational analysis of the (B2P{cyrillic}→X2P{cyrillic}) system of NS

Patel, MM (1963) Vibrational analysis of the (B2P{cyrillic}→X2P{cyrillic}) system of NS. In: European Physical Journal A (EPJ A), The - Hadrons and Nuclei, 173 (3). pp. 347-351.

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Abstract

A few red degraded bands attributable to NS have been reported earlier by Fowler and Barker, Dressler and Barrow et al, and they occur in the same region (2300 to 2700 Å) as the bands of the known systems (C2∑+-X2P{cyrillic}) and (A2Δ-X2P{cyrillic}). Measurements made on the heads of some of these weak bands led Barrow et al. to believe that these bands may form a system analogous to the β-system of NO and be due to a2P{cyrillic}-2P{cyrillic} transition. The spectrum of NS has now been studied in a little more detail by means of an uncondensed discharge through dry nitrogen and sulphur vapour in the presence of argon and thirty three bands belonging to this system have been recorded in the region 2280 to 2760 Å. It has been found possible to represent the band heads by means of the equation {Mathematical expression}. Taking the lower state doublet interval as 223 cm-1, it is shown that the separation in the upper state is 94 cm-1. The ratio of the force constants in the upper and the ground states is found to be 0·39 and is nearly the same as that in the β-system of NO (0·30). The present vibrational analysis therefore supports the view that these new red degraded bands of NS arise from a (B2P{cyrillic}→X2P{cyrillic}) transition and the observed intensity distribution in the form of a wide parabola is also in qualitative agreement with what is expected from the moderately large Δ re (∼0·12Å) value.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	European Physical Journal A (EPJ A), The - Hadrons and Nuclei
Publisher:	Springer
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Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2010 05:26
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:08
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/28214

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