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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 2(91), 2015

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.91.022508

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Relativistic formulation of the Voigt profile

Journal article published in 2015 by P. Wcisło, P. Amodio, R. Ciuryło, L. Gianfrani ORCID
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Abstract

The relativistic formulation of the Voigt profile is reported for the spontaneous emission from an atomic or molecular cloud, in coincidence with a given spectral line. We considered the simultaneous occurrence of homogeneous broadening and thermal broadening, this latter being determined by the relativistic Doppler effect. Our formula for the relativistic Voigt profile reproduces those characterizing the two available limit cases, namely, the relativistic Gaussian profile and the classical Voigt convolution. The relativistic deformation of the Voigt profile was carefully quantified at different temperatures, in the case of the molecular hydrogen spectrum.