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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
The high resolution and the high light-gathering power of a Fourier–transform spectrometer (FTS) afford the observation of very weak lines in laboratory spectra. Thus it became possible to determine an accurate solar iron abundance from Fe II lines that are weak in the solar spectrum: we measured the branching fractions of a few such lines whose upper levels lifetimes are known.