Wavelength Table

Atlas of Spectral Features Found in Cataclysmic Variables: UV-IR Wavelength Table

D. W. Hoard (Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology)

Ion	Wavelength (Å)		Wavelength Reference(s)	Spectrum Source(s)
Ion	Mean	Multiplets	Wavelength Reference(s)	Spectrum Source(s)
C III	1176	1174.93 1175.26 1175.59 1175.71 1175.99 1176.37	1	V884 Her (?) DW UMa
Si III	1206.52	1206.500 1206.517 1207.555	3
H I (Ly-a)	1215.67		1	V884 Her DW UMa
N V	1240	1238.82 1240.15 1242.80	1	V884 Her DW UMa
Si III	1299	1298.89 1298.96	1	V884 Her DW UMa
O I	1304	1302.17 1303.49 1304.86 1306.03	1	V884 Her
C II	1335	1334.53 1335.31 1335.66 1335.71	1	V884 Her DW UMa
O V	1371.29		1	V884 Her
Si IV	1394	1393.76 1396.75 1398.13	1	V884 Her DW UMa
Si IV	1402.77		1	V884 Her DW UMa
N IV	1483.32		1	V884 Her (?)
C IV	1550	1548.20 1550.77	1	V884 Her DW UMa
He II	1640	1640.47 1640.49	1	V884 Her DW UMa
N IV	1718.55		1	V884 Her (?)
Al III	1860	1854.72 1862.79	1	V884 Her
He II	2381.13		1	V884 Her (?)
He II	2511.96		1	V884 Her
Mg II	2800	2796.35 2803.53	1	V884 Her
O III	3046	3043.91 3048.02	1	V884 Her (?)
O III	3133.77		1	V884 Her
He II	3204.03		1	V884 Her
He I	4026.2	4026.1844 4026.1859 4026.1860 4026.1968 4026.1983 4026.3570	3
H I (Ba-δ)	4101.74		2
H I (Ba-γ)	4340.47		2	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	4387.929		2	AR UMa
He I	4471.50	4471.479 4471.68	2	AR UMa V442 Oph
N III	4637	4634.14 4640.64	2	AR UMa V442 Oph
C III	4658	4647.42 4650.25 4651.47 4665.86	2	AR UMa V442 Oph
He II	4685.65	4685.4 4685.7	3	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	4713.17	4713.146 4713.38	2	AR UMa
H I (Ba-β)	4861.33		2	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	4921.931		2	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	5015.678		2	AR UMa V442 Oph
Mg I	5175	5167.3216 5172.6843 5183.6042	3	AR UMa
He II	5411.52		2	AR UMa
He I	5875.68	5875.62 5875.97	2	AR UMa V442 Oph
Na I (D)	5892	5889.950 5895.924	2	AR UMa
Mg II	6346.75	6346.742 6346.75	3	AR UMa
H I (Ba-α)	6562.80	6562.72 6562.852	2	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	6678.152		3	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	7065.2	7065.179 7065.217 7065.710	3	AR UMa V442 Oph
He I	7281.351		3	AR UMa

TABLE NOTES:

Reference 1 = 2000, Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, 4th Edition, ed. A. N. Cox (New York: Springer-Verlag), ch. 8 [Wavelengths in vacuum]
Reference 2 = 1985, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 66th Edition, ed. R. C. Weast (Boca Raton: CRC Press), E-198 [Wavelengths < 2000 Å in vacuum; > 2000 Å in air]
Reference 3 = NIST Atomic Spectra Database, available at http://physlab2.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/index.html [Observed wavelengths quoted in this table. Wavelengths < 2000 Å in vacuum; 2000–10,000 Å in air]