Pickering series

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Edward Charles Pickering.

Proper noun[edit]

Pickering series

  1. Three lines of singly ionized helium found, usually in absorption, in the spectra of hot stars, produced by transitions of an electron with principal quantum number n=4 state from a higher energy level.