edu.ucar.opensky::articles:19425 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:38:15.792854 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mk6fnr Laboratory frequency redistribution function for the polarized λ-type three-term atom 2016-12-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mk6fnr https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/197 Casini, Roberto author Manso Sainz, R. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher We present the frequency redistribution function for a polarized three-term atom of the Lambda-type in the collisionless regime, and we specialize it to the case where both the initial and final terms of the three-state transition are metastable (i. e., with infinitely sharp levels). This redistribution function represents a generalization of the wellknown RII function to the case where the lower terms of the transition can be polarized and carry atomic coherence, and it can be applied to the investigation of polarized line formation in tenuous plasmas, where collisional rates may be low enough that anisotropy-induced atomic polarization survives even in the case of metastable levels. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2016 the American Astronomical Society. None eng geoscientificInformation