“…The result of this combination is a set of absolute transition probabilities (Huber andSandeman, 1986 andKock, 1996). In Kroll, 1985, Kroll and Kock, 1987and Heise and Kock, 1990 we used lifetimes with high uncertainties of 10 % to calibrate our experimental branching fractions in the Fe II spectrum. These lifetimes were also affected by a systematic error, since they proved to be systematically too large.…”