A new vacuum ultraviolet-light source is described which emits a strong continuous emission spectrum from 1500A to 2250A. This source is constructed of Pyrex, is charged with xenon, and carries a fluorite window which allows the tube to be completely sealed off from the vacuum system. Microwave energy at a frequency of 2450 mc/sec is used to excite the emission. Molecular xenon is presumably responsible for the continuum and the main transition is probably 3∑u+→1∑g+ with some contribution from 1∑u+→1∑g+. The source has been used to photograph the Schumann-Runge absorption bands of oxygen in the first order of a 21-foot vacuum grating spectrograph.
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