INTERFEROMETER MEASUREMENTS OF THE HYPERFINE STRUCTURE OF SOME LINES OF SINGLY IONIZED BISMUTH
The hyperfine structure of nine lines of Bi II and one line of Bi III has been measured by means of a quartz Lummer plate and a glass Lummer plate used in conjunction with a Hilger E 1 spectrograph. The light source was a water-cooled hollow cathode discharge in helium. Of the lines investigated the hyperfine structure of some had already been resolved either totally or in part by Fisher and Goudsmit using a 21 ft. grating, but for the lines λ6808, 6600, 4272 and 4259 the hyperfine structure has been obtained for the first time. The separation factors for the terms 6p1/2 5f31/2 144 and [Formula: see text] have been found.The interaction constants of the 5f21/2, 5f31/2, and 6d21/2 electrons have been calculated.