2320 20160701171703.0 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14761.x DOI ASTROimport-477 Fivet, V. 2009 Experimental and theoretical radiative decay rates for highly excited ruthenium atomic levels and the solar abundance of ruthenium The solar photospheric abundance of ruthenium is revised on the basis of a new set of oscillator strengths derived for RuI transitions with wavelengths in the spectral range 2250-4710 Å. The new abundance value (in the usual logarithmic scale where the solar hydrogen abundance is equal to 12.00), ARu = 1.72 +/- 0.10, is in agreement with the most recent meteoritic result, ARu = 1.76 +/- 0.03. The accuracy of the transition probabilities, obtained using a relativistic Hartree-Fock model including core-polarization effects, has been assessed by comparing the theoretical lifetimes with previous experimental results. A comparison is also made with new measurements performed in this work by the time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy for 10 highly excited odd-parity levels of RuI. Quinet, P. Palmeri, P. Biémont, É. Asplund, M. Grevesse, N. Sauval, A. J. Engström, L. Lundberg, H. Hartman, H. Nilsson, H. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 396 4 2009 2124-2132 http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2009MNRAS.396.2124F published in REFERD