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The 23.01 release of Cloudy

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-11-20 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We announce the C23.01 update of Cloudy. This corrects a simple coding error, present since \sim 1990, in one routine that required a conversion from the line-center to the mean normalization of the Lyα\alpha optical depth. This affects the destruction of H I Lyα\alpha by background opacities. Its largest effect is upon the Lyα\alpha intensity in high-ionization dusty clouds, where the predicted intensity is now up to three times stronger. Other properties that depend on Lyα\alpha destruction, such as grain infrared emission, change in response.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.10163,
  title  = {The 23.01 release of Cloudy},
  author = {Chamani M. Gunasekera and Peter A. M. van Hoof and Marios Chatzikos and Gary J. Ferland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10163},
  year   = {2023}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure

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