Correlation of some radiative processes resulting from electronic and vibrational spectra of a CN molecule excited in an electric arc discharge

The molecular vibration temperature of the plasma from an interrupt arc discharge in air at atmospheric pressure and at current intensities in the range of 2 divided by 8 Amperes, using electronic and vibration bands of violet [B2(Sigma) + - X2(Sigma) +] and red [A2(Pi) - X2(Sigma) +] systems of the CN molecule was determined. At the equilibrium temperature of 6400 K, 27 lines of Ti, contained as impurity in coal electrode were found. These spectral lines were found in the 247 divided by 340 nm spectral range, having the upper levels of the excitation energies in the 3.60 divided by 5.69 eV range, in the neighborhood of the energy of dissociation of the CN molecule on the fundamental electronic state. Some considerations about the vibrational states populations are also made.