The spectrum of rubidium hydride, RbH I. Analysis
The spectra of the diatomic hydrides of lithium, sodium and potassium have been studied both in absorption and in emission by several authors, LiH by Nakamura (1930, 1931) and Crawford and Jorgensen (1935), NaH by Hori (1930, 1931) and Olsson (1935), KH by Almy and Hause (1932) and Hori (1933), and recently Almy and Rassweiler (1938) have published details of the absorption spectrum of caesium hydride. All these hydrides show spectra of the “ many-line” type consisting of numerous overlapping bands with open rotational structure and no obvious heads. A rotational analysis shows that they all have the same type of electronic transition, 1Σ → 1Σ ,and are very strongly degraded towards the red. These spectra are all anomalous in that the frequency, ω´ v , and the rotational constant, B'v,increase at first with increasing initial vibrational quantum numbe v `.