Electronic spectroscopy of toluene-rare-gas clusters: The external heavy atom effect and vibrational predissociation J. Chem. Phys. 122, 194315 (2005); 10.1063/1.1899155High resolution measurements of kinetic energy release distributions of neon, argon, and krypton cluster ions using a three sector field mass spectrometer Spectroscopy and relaxation kinetics of the perturbed CO (b 3 Σ + ,v ′ =0,1,2) and CO (a ′ 3 Σ + , v ′ =31-36, 40, and 41) levels and reinterpretation of CO (a ′ 3 Σ + , v ′ =34 and 35) formation in the Kr (5s ′ [1/2] 0 )+ CO reaction Fluorescence lifetime measurements of Kr N clusters (Nϭ2 -2000) have been carried out using intense 10 eV laser excitation near 3 P 2 metastable atomic energy level. Two principal groups of electronically excited dimers Kr 2 * have been found in desorption: dimers, loosely bound near the ( 3 P 2 ϩ 1 S 0 ) dissociation limit, ejected from cooled clusters and dimers undergoing vibrational relaxation from hot clusters. The desorption is principally terminated when Nу50 at./cluster. The relaxation kinetics seems to converge to the properties of a solid state for 10 2 рN р10 3 at./cluster. A variation of the Kr 2 *(1 u /0 u Ϫ ) radiative lifetime, from 264 ns ͑in gas phase͒ to 440 ns (Nϭ10 2 ), has been found. An equilibrium cluster temperature of 57 K has been calculated from this (N) dependence.