ASOS 8
8th International Colloquium
on
Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths
for
Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
.
PROGRAM
SUNDAY, 8 August
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Check-in/registration in Main Lobby of the Pyle Center
Simultaneous reception in the Alumni Lounge
All sessions, both oral and poster, and coffee breaks are in the Pyle Center. Coffee breaks and poster sessions are in the Alumni Lounge. Oral sessions are probably in room 325/326. Check listing in lobby to verify room assignment.
MONDAY, 9 August
8:30 am Late check-in/registration Main Lobby of Pyle Center
8:45 am Welcome - Jim Lawler, University of Wisconsin
Official Welcome - Chancellor John Wiley
Session 1: Astrophysics
Chairperson: Lydia Tchang-Brillet
9:00 am Timothy Beers, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA
Abundances in Very Metal-poor Stars: Nuclear Effects or Too Simple Atomic Physics?
9:45 am Paul Feldman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
Spectroscopy of Comets with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Satellite
10:30 am Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 2: Rare-Earth Theory and Application
Chairperson: John Curry
11:00 am Emil Biémont, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Recent Advances and Difficulties in Oscillator Strength Determination for Rare-earth Elements and Ions
11:45 am Marco Haverlag, Philips Lighting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Prediction of Spectra of High-pressure Metal Halide Discharge Lamps Containing Rare-earth Fillings
12:30 pm Lunch
Session 3: X-ray Spectroscopy
Chairperson: Elmar Träbert
2:00 pm Ton Raassen, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
X-ray Spectra of Cool and Hot Stars Obtained with Chandra and XMM-Newton
2:45 pm John Gillaspy, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD USA
The Electron Beam Ion Trap + Microcalorimeter: A Good Combination for Laboratory Astrophysics
3:30 pm Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 4: Monday Poster Session
3:30 - 5:30 pm Chairperson: Teresa Herd
| Abs # | Title | Authors |
| M1 | Observation and Modeling of the K-shell X-ray Emission of Ar16+ Following Charge Exchange of Ar17+ with Deuterium | P. Beiersdorfer, M. Bitter, M. Marion, R. E. Olson |
| M2 | The LLNL Electron Beam Ion Trap and the NASA/GSFC Calorimeter: Productive Tools for Laboratory Astrophysics | F. S. Porter, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, K. R. Boyce, H. Chen, M.-F. Gu, S. M. Kahn, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, S. Terracol |
| M3 | Laboratory Wavelengths of K-shell Resonance Lines of O v and O vi | M. Schmidt, P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, D. B. Thorn, E. Träbert, and E. Behar |
| M4 | M1 Transition Rates in B-like and F-like Ions:
Measurements at the Heidelberg TSR Heavy-ion Storage Ring and at the Livermore Ebit-I Electron Beam Ion Trap |
E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, G. Gwinner, E.H. Pinnington, A. Wolf |
| M5 | In Pursuit of the M1 Transition Rate in He-like Ions: Be 2+ Lifetime Measurement at the Heidelberg Heavy-ion Storage Ring TSR | E. Träbert, G. Gwinner, E. J. Knystautas, A. Wolf |
| M6 | A New Determination of the Branching Ratios for Some Weak 3s - 3p Transitions of Ne ii | J. Mervin Bridges and Wolfgang L. Wiese |
| M7 | Optical Spectroscopy of Metal-halide High-intensity Discharge Lamps | J. J. Curry and C. J. Sansonetti |
| M8 | Characterization of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow-cathode Lamps for Wavelength Standards in Space Astronomy | F. Kerber, M.R. Rosa, P. Bristow, G. Nave, J. Reader, C.J. Sansonetti and G. Lercher |
| M9 | Spectrum and Energy Levels of Triply-ionized Niobium (Nb iv) | Tauheed Ahmad and Joseph Reader |
| M10 | Carbon i Transitions Observed in Lupi | T. McElroy and A. Hibbert |
| M11 | Fluorescent and Forbidden Transitions in Fe iii | Adrian Toner and Alan Hibbert |
| M12 | Infrared Transitions in Fe ii | Gwénaëlle Corrégé and Alan. Hibbert |
| M13 | The 13.5-nm Unresolved Transition Array in Tin and Xenon | John White |
| M14 | Photoabsorption Spectra of a Laser Produced Sn Plasma | Michael Lysaght |
| M15 | Measurement of XUV Transition Probabilities Using Electron-impact Excitation Cross Sections Measurements in the Visible/Infrared Spectral Range | John B. Boffard and Chun C. Lin |
| M16 | Polarization Induced by Atomic Alignment as a Magnetic Diagnostic | Huirong Yan and A. Lazarian |
| M17 | Atomic Data for Resonance Lines | Donald C. Morton |
| M18 | Atomic Transition Probability Tables for Fe i and Fe ii | J. R. Fuhr and W. L. Wiese |
| M19 | New and Expanded NIST Spectroscopic Databases | J. E. Sansonetti, Yu. Ralchenko, J. R. Fuhr, D. E. Kelleher, A. E. Kramida, W. C. Martin, L. I. Podobedova, J. Reader, E. B. Saloman, and W. L. Wiese |
| M20 | On-line Atomic and Molecular Data and Bibliographies from the Paris-meudon Observatory | H. Abgrall, M. Bruston, M. Cornille, J. Crovisier, J. Dubau, M.-L. Dubernet-Tuckey, M. Eidelsberg, N. Feautrier, A. Lesage, F. Launay, E. Roueff, F. Rostas, S. Sahal, A. Spielfiedel, C. Stehle and W.-Ü L. Tchang-Brillet |
| M21 | A Tabulation of Atomic Transition Probabilities for Sulfur, S i Through S xv | L. I. Podobedova, D. E. Kelleher, and W. L. Wiese |
| M22 | A Presentation of Three Ab Initio Atomic Structure Calculation Projects | M. Andersson, T. Brage and P. Jönsson |
| M23 | Analysis of the 3d34f Configuration in Ni vii Ion | R.R. Kildayarova, S.S. Churilov, A.N. Ryabtsev, and Y. N. Joshi |
| M24 | Oscillator Strengths of Resonance and Intercombination Lines in Cl ii | S. S. Tayal |
| M25 | Photoionization Modeling and the K Lines of Iron | T. R. Kallman, P. Palmeri, M. A. Bautista and C. Mendoza |
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| M27 | ||
| M28 | ||
| M29 |
TUESDAY, 10 August
Session 5: Laboratory Astrophysics
Chairperson: Don Morton
8:30 am R.J. Blackwell-Whitehead, J.C. Pickering, G. Nave, Hans Lundberg, H.R.A. Jones, S. Viti,
Neutral Titanium and Manganese Laboratory Oscillator Strengths Applied to Low Mass Star Studies
8:50 am J.-F. Wyart, W.-Ü L. Tchang-Brillet, S.S. Churilov and A.N. Ryabtsev
Generalized Parametric Studies of 4fN and 4fN-1 6p Configurations and New Energy Levels in Doubly-Ionized Lanthanides
9:10 am Glenn Wahlgren, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Report on activities of IAU Commission 14
9:30 am Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 6: Special Session Honoring Prof. Charles R. Cowley
Chairpersons: Don Bord and Saul Adelman
10:00 am Chairpersons' remarks
10:10 am Friedrich Kupka, Max Planck Institut for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Some Physics We Can Learn from Spectroscopy of A-type Stars
10:55 am Gillian Nave, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD USA
Atomic Oscillator Strengths in the Vacuum Ultraviolet using Fourier Transform and Grating Spectroscopy
11:40 am Charles R. Cowley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
Pursuit of Lanthanide Abundances in Chemically Peculiar stars
12:00 noon Lunch
Session 7: High Temperature Plasma Applications
Chairperson: Peter Beiersdorfer
1:30 pm Rudolf Neu, Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Assoc., Garching, Germany
Spectroscopy Data Needs of Next Generation Devices for Magnetically Confined Fusion
2:15 pm Albrecht Pospieszczyk, Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Assoc. Jülich, Germany
Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Tokamak Edge Plasmas
3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Spectroscopic Data Needs for High Temperature and Industrial Plasmas
panelists: P. Beiersdorfer, M. Haverlag, R. Neu, W. Wiese
3:30 pm Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 8: Tuesday Poster Session
3:30 - 5:30 pm Chairperson: John Boffard
| Abs # | Title | Authors |
| T1 | Pursuit of Lanthanide Abundances in Chemically Peculiar Stars | Charles R. Cowley |
| T2 | Search for Isotope Effects in Nd ii in the Spectrum of HD 101065 | Donald J. Bord and Charles R. Cowley |
| T3 | A Spectral Study of Vega: a Rapidly-rotating Pole-on Star | Graham Hill, Austin F. Gulliver, and Saul J. Adelman |
| T4 | Pt i Radiative Lifetimes, Branching Fractions, and Application | M. T. Herd, E. A. Den Hartog, J. E. Lawler, C. Sneden, J. J. Cowan, and T. C. Beers |
| T5 | Fourier Transform Spectrometry of the Infrared Spectrum of Neutral Silver (Ag i) | Zhigang Li and Gillian Nave |
| T6 | Atomic Measurements of Doubly Ionised Iron Group Elements by High Resolution Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for Astrophysical Applications | D.G. Smillie, J. C. Pickering, P.L. Smith, A.P. Thorne, R.J. Blackwell-Whitehead |
| T7 | Neutral Titanium and Manganese Laboratory Oscillator Strengths Applied to Low Mass Star Studies. | R.J. Blackwell-Whitehead, J.C. Pickering, G. Nave, Hans Lundberg, H.R.A. Jones, S. Viti |
| T8 | Spectrosopic Data for M-shell Diagnostics of
Tantalum and Gold Plasmas |
U. I. Safronova and A.S. Shlyaptseva |
| T9 | Relativistic Many-body Calculations of Excitation Energies, Line Strengths, Transition Rates, and Oscillator Strengths in Pd-like Ions | U. I. Safronova and W. R. Johnson |
| T10 | E1 Transitions in S ii | Gwénaëlle Corrégé and Alan Hibbert |
| T11 | Transitions in Gallium ii | T. McElroy and A. Hibbert |
| T12 | Mn ii Transitions of Astrophysican Importance | Adrian Toner and Alan Hibbert |
| T13 | Analysis of the Spectra of Pd-like Pr xiv and Nd xv Ions | S.S. Churilov, A.N. Ryabtsev, J.-F. Wyart, W.-Ü L. Tchang-Brillet and Y. Joshi |
| T14 | Generalized Parametric Studies of 4fN and 4fN-16p Configurations and New Energy Levels in Doubly-ionized Lanthanides | J.-F. Wyart, W.-Ü L.Tchang-Brillet, S.S. Churilov and A.N. Ryabtsev |
| T15 | Computational Atomic Spectroscopy | Charlotte Froese Fischer and Yuri Ralchenko |
| T16 | Lifetime Measurements of Metastable Levels in Singly Charged Ions by Laser Probing in an Ion Storage Ring | P. Lundin, S. Mannervik, L.-O. Norlin, P. Royen, P. Schef, E. Biémont, H. Hartman, S. Johansson and H. Lundberg |
| T17 | On the Importance of an M2 Depopulating Channel for Metastable States in Kr ii and Xe ii | E. Biémont, A. Ellmann, P. Lundin,
S. Mannervik, L.-O. Norlin,
D. Rostohar, P. Royen, P. Palmeri and P. Schef |
| T18 | Laboratory Atomic Spectroscopy for the FUSE Mission | G.M. Wahlgren, H. Nilsson, S. Ivarsson, S. Johansson |
| T19 | Measurements of Branching Fractions and Hyperfine Structure Constants in Singly Ionized Niobium (Nb ii). | Hampus Nilsson and Stefan Ivarsson |
| T20 | The Radiative Lifetime of a Bound Excited States in Negative Ions | A. Ellmann, P. Schef, P. Lundin, P. Royen, S. Mannervik, K. Fritioff, P. Andersson, D. Hanstorp, C. Froese Fischer, F. Österdahl, D. J. Pegg, N. D. Gibson, H. Danared and A. Källberg |
| T21 | Landé g-factors for Experimentally Determined Energy Levels in Doubly Ionized Lanthanides | Pascal Quinet and Emile Biémont |
| T22 | Laboratory Measurements of the Emission Cross Sections of the 15.0 Resonance and 15.2 Intercombination Lines from Fe xvii | G. V. Brown, P. Beiersdorfer, K. R. Boyce, H. Chen, S. M. Kahn, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, F. S. Porter, and A. E. Szymkowiak |
| T23 | Fe xvii Emission from Hot, Collisional Tokamak Plasmas | P. Beiersdorfer, M. Bitter, S. von Goeler, and K. W. Hill |
| T24 | Excitation Cross Section Measurement for n=3 to n=2 Line Emission in Fe20+ to Fe23+ | H. Chen, P. Beiersdorfer, K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, M-F Gu, S. M. Kahn, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, F. S. Porter, and J. H. Scofield |
| T25 | Catalogue of Extreme Ultraviolet Emission Lines of Highly Charged Ions | J. K. Lepson, P. Beiersdorfer, E. Behar and S. M. Kahn |
| T26 | Laboratory Transition Rates for the Red and Green Fe Lines in the Solar Corona: Measurements at the Heidelberg TSR Heavy-ion Storage Ring and at the Livermore Ebit-I Electron Beam Ion Trap | E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, E.H. Pinnington, G. Saathoff, and A. Wolf |
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| T28 | ||
| T29 |
WEDNESDAY, 11 August
Session 9: Oscillator Strengths 1
Chairperson: Yogi Joshi
8:30 am Alan Hibbert, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
Oscillator Strengths for Fe ii
9:15 am Henrik Hartman, Lund University Observatory, Lund, Sweden
Experimental Transition Probabilities for Parity Forbidden Lines in Complex Spectra
10:00 am Panel Discussion: Astrophysical Data Needs
panelists: S. Adelman, P. Feldman, F. Kupka, T. Raassen
10:30 am Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 10: Radiative Lifetimes
Chairperson: Hans Schmoranzer
11:00 am Betsy Den Hartog, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
Understanding and Control of Systematic Errors in the Measurement of Radiative Lifetimes Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence
11:45 am P. Lundin, S. Mannervik, L.-O. Norlin, P. Royen, and P. Schef, E. Biémont, H. Hartman, S. Johansson and H. Lundberg
Lifetime Measurements of Metastable Levels in Singly Charged Ions by Laser Probing in an Ion Storage Ring
12:05 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Conference Excursion
Assemble at Pyle Center Lobby for Conference Excursion and Banquet.
The approximate timing for the afternoon and evening is as follows:
1:45 Depart from the Pyle Center on Badger Coach for the ride to Spring Green.
2:30 Arrive at Taliesin Visitor's Center and begin Hillside Tour.
3:30 Return to Visitor's Center for shopping and restroom break.
4:00 Depart for Old Feed Mill.
4:30 Social before dinner.
5:15 Dinner in this historic setting.
6:30 Depart for APT.
7:00 Head up the hill to the theatre either walking or by shuttle.
7:30 Enjoy the Play
10:30 Depart for Madison.
11:15 Arrive at Lowell Center, Campus Inn, and Howard Johnson's.
THURSDAY, 12 August
Session 11: Atomic Theory
Chairperson: Charlotte Froese Fischer
9:30 am U. I. Safronova and W. R. Johnson
Relativistic Many-body Calculations of Excitation Energies, Line Strengths, Transition Rates, and Oscillator Strengths in Pd-like Ions
9:50 am Donald R. Beck, Steven M. O'Malley, and Lin Pan
Relativistic Configuration Interaction Computational Strategies for Transition Metal Atoms: Application to Fe ii and Tc i
10:10 am Panel Discussion on Frontiers of Atomic Theory and Computation
Panelists: D. Beck, E. Biémont, C. Froese Fischer, A. Hibbert, U. Safronova
10:40 am Coffee Break - Alumni Lounge
Session 12: Oscillator Strengths 2
Chairperson: Betsy Den Hartog
11:10 am A. Schmitt and H. Schmoranzer
Precision Lifetime Measurement on Ca ii 4p 2P1/2;3/2 by Beam-Gas-Laser Spectroscopy (BGLS)
11:30 am Hampus Nilsson and Stefan Ivarsson
Measurement of Branching Fractions and Hyperfine Structure Constants in Singly Ionized Niobium (Nb ii)
11:50 am D.G. Smillie, J. C. Pickering, P.L. Smith, A.P. Thorne, R.J. Blackwell-Whitehead
Atomic Measurements of Doubly Ionised Iron Group Elements by High Resolution Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for Astrophysical Applications
12:10 pm S.R. Federman, R.M. Schectman, M. Brown, S. Cheng, L.J. Curtis, M.C. Fritts, and R.E. Irving
Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in Tin and Chlorine Ions
12:30 pm Closing Remarks
12:45 pm Adjourn