to light vector mesons are kinematically allowed. We expect the partial widths to a charm plus light vector to be small based on limited phase space. While this is generally supported by other calculations, in a few cases the BR to these final states was found to be as large as $\sim 20\%$. The $^3P_0$ model is more general and can therefore also be used in these cases. Nevertheless we have found that the pseudoscalar emission model provides a useful check of those results [@Godfrey:1986wj; @Blundell:1995ev; @Blundell:1995au]. In this spirit we calculate strong decays of excited $D_s$ mesons using the pseudoscalar emission model as another approach to understand the nature of the recently observed $D_s$ states. In this model the decay is assumed to proceed through a single-quark transition. While the details of this model are given elsewhere, for completeness, we give the amplitude [@godfrey85xj]:

$$\begin{aligned}
A_{q(\bar{q})} \left( M^*(\vec{k},s)  \to M(\vec{k}',s) P^i(\vec{q}) \right)  &  \nonumber \\
 =\pm i { { \sqrt{2\omega 2\omega'} } \over {(2\pi)^{9/2}} } 
\langle M(s') |  &  
\left\{  \left( { g + {h \over 2} { {m_{q(\bar{q})} - m_{\bar{q}(q)}} \over {m_q+m_{\bar{q}} } } }\right)
\vec{\sigma}_{q(\bar{q})} \cdot \vec{q} 
\pm  h \vec{\sigma}_{q(\bar{q})} \cdot \overleftarrow{p}' \right\}
e^{\mp i {m_{\bar{q}(q)} \over 