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4 - Isolated Lines

from Part Two - Broadening Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2020

Peter Joseph Rayer
Affiliation:
The Meteorological Office, UK
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The focus here is on the approach taken by Anderson, which extends previous work by including the possibility that collisions will cause transitions in the radiator. Anderson confines himself to spectral lines that may be considered isolated from one another, and will, therefore, be broadened independently, and the start point is the correlation function of the radiatively active dipole, a quantum mechanical average formed from the states and operators of the gas system. This is treated as an ensemble average, in line with later chapters, and Anderson’s use of a time average is relegated to an appendix. However, the two approaches eventually converge, and both lead to a concern for the average effect on the lines as the radiator encounters an ensemble of single binary collisions on classical trajectories. Under the impact approximation, the correlation function may be greatly simplified, and expressions arise for the shift and width of a spectral line in terms of an optical cross-section that may be approached through a low order perturbative approximation. Within this, contributions due to phase shifts, elastic reorientations and inelastic transfers may all be distinguished.

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Pressure Broadening of Spectral Lines
The Theory of Line Shape in Atmospheric Physics
, pp. 95 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Isolated Lines
  • Peter Joseph Rayer
  • Book: Pressure Broadening of Spectral Lines
  • Online publication: 26 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768825.005
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  • Isolated Lines
  • Peter Joseph Rayer
  • Book: Pressure Broadening of Spectral Lines
  • Online publication: 26 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768825.005
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