The Fraunhofer H and K letters are also still used for the calcium-II doublet in the violet part of the spectrum, important in astronomical spectroscopy. This may be confusing because the excited state for this transition is the P-state of the alkali and should not be confused with the higher D-states. The D 1 and D 2 lines correspond to the fine-structure splitting of the excited states. This historical designation for this line has stuck and is given to all the transitions between the ground state and the first excited state of the other alkali atoms as well. The D 1 and D 2 lines form the well-known "sodium doublet", the centre wavelength of which (589.29 nm) is given the designation letter "D". The Fraunhofer letters are now rarely used for those lines.
#SODIUM ELEMENT WAVELENGTH SERIES#
The Fraunhofer C, F, G', and h lines correspond to the alpha, beta, gamma and delta lines of the Balmer series of emission lines of the hydrogen atom. The major Fraunhofer lines, and the elements they are associated with, are shown in the following table:Ī demonstration of the 589 nm D 2 (left) and 590 nm D 1 (right) emission sodium D lines using a wick with salt water in a flame The photosphere gas has lower temperatures than gas in the inner regions, and absorbs a little of the light emitted from those regions. In the Sun, Fraunhofer lines are a result of gas in the photosphere, the outer region of the sun. Absorption lines are dark lines, narrow regions of decreased intensity, that are the result of photons being absorbed as light passes from the source to the detector. The Fraunhofer lines are typical spectral absorption lines. Some of the observed features were identified as telluric lines originating from absorption by oxygen molecules in the Earth's atmosphere. It was correctly deduced that dark lines in the solar spectrum are caused by absorption by chemical elements in the solar atmosphere.
Modern observations of sunlight can detect many thousands of lines.Ībout 45 years later, Kirchhoff and Bunsen noticed that several Fraunhofer lines coincide with characteristic emission lines identified in the spectra of heated elements. He mapped over 570 lines, designating the principal features (lines) with the letters A through K and weaker lines with other letters. In 1814, Fraunhofer independently rediscovered the lines and began to systematically study and measure the wavelengths where these features are observed. In 1802, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston was the first person to note the appearance of a number of dark features in the solar spectrum. Solar spectrum with Fraunhofer lines as it appears visually.
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