Comments on Recent Papers on the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas

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Comments on Recent Papers on the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas

Eugene Oks ^{1 ,*}

1 . Physics Department, 380 Duncan Drive, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA

* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Published in Journal of Fundamental and Observational Physics and Astrophysics ( Volume 1, Issue 2 )

Received: 08 October 2025 Accepted: 08 November 2025 Published: 29 November 2025

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Abstract

The Stark broadening of hydrogenic spectral lines is one of the primary tools for spectroscopic diagnostics of various laboratory and astrophysical plasmas in a very wide range of electron densities Ne and a wide range of electron temperatures Te. There is a rich physics behind this phenomenon because in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas there are different types of the electric fields acting together on radiating hydrogenic atoms/ions. However, there is a lot of confusions in some recent papers on the subject. In the present paper we clarify those confusions for the benefit of the theorists working in this area, for the benefit of the experimentalists using the corresponding methods of spectroscopic diagnostics of laboratory plasmas, as well as for the benefit of astrophysicists employing the corresponding methods of spectroscopic diagnostics of astrophysical plasmas.

Published in	Journal of Fundamental and Observational Physics and Astrophysics (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI	10.65736/jfopa01022
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Stark broadening; hydrogenic spectral lines, strongly-magnetized plasmas, helical trajectories of electrons, laboratory plasmas, astrophysical plasmas

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Oks, E. E. (2024). Comments on Recent Papers on the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas. Journal of Fundamental and Observational Physics and Astrophysics, 1, (2), 1. https://doi.org/10.65736/jfopa01022

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Oks, E. Comments on Recent Papers on the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas. Mach. Learn. Res. (2024), 1, (2), 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.65736/jfopa01022

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Oks . Comments on Recent Papers on the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas. Mach Learn Res. (2024);1(2):1. doi: https://doi.org/10.65736/jfopa01022

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