Semi-Empirical Oscillator Strengths for the Cu I Isoelectronic Sequence

Abstract

Semi-empirical values for the lifetimes, transition probabilities and oscillator strengths have been computed for all n = 4, n = 5 and some n ⩽ 9 Rydberg transitions for ions in the Cu I isoelectronic sequence through In XXI. Extrapolation and interpolation techniques were utilised to obtain a set of estimated term values and ionisation potentials which, although crude by spectroscopic standards, are of sufficient accuracy to serve as inputs for transition probability calculations by the numerical Coulomb approximation.