“…Radiative parameters, such as transition probabilities, between the singlet ungerade levels and vibrationally excited levels of the X 1 Σ g + state, however, are generally unavailable. Although the photoabsorption of vibrationally excited N 2 prepared in a discharge has been reported [ Verma and Jois , 1984], no accurate intensity measurements for transitions involving the v i > 0 levels of the X 1 Σ g + state are available, presumably because of difficulty in quantifying the relative populations of the vibrationally excited states. While the discharge‐emission work of Roncin et al [1998, 1999] is extremely valuable for the determination of accurate line positions and energy term values, it yields very little information on emission properties, primarily due to the optically thick nature of the experiments.…”