Relativistic allowed and forbidden transition probabilities for fluorine-like Fe XVIII^*

¹ Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
² University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
³ Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
⁴ Department of Physics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
⁵ Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

Corresponding author: V. Jonauskas, v.jonauskas@qub.ac.uk

Received: 17 September 2003
Accepted: 19 November 2003

Abstract

Energy levels and the corresponding transition probabilities for allowed and forbidden transitions among the levels of the ground configuration and first 23 excited configurations of fluorine-like have been calculated using the multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock grasp code. A total of 379 lowest bound levels of is presented, and the energy levels are identified in spectroscopic notations. Transition probabilities, oscillator strengths and line strengths for electric dipole (E1), electric quadrupole (E2) and magnetic dipole (M1) transitions among these 379 levels are also presented. The calculated energy levels and transition probabilities are compared with experimental data.