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Updated Atomic Data and Calculations for X-ray Spectroscopy

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-05 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We describe the latest release of AtomDB, version 2.0.2, a database of atomic data and a plasma modeling code with a focus on X-ray astronomy. This release includes several major updates to the fundamental atomic structure and process data held within AtomDB, incorporating new ionization balance data, state-selective recombination data, and updated collisional excitation data for many ions, including the iron L-shell ions from Fe+16^{+16} to Fe+23^{+23} and all of the hydrogen- and helium-like sequences. We also describe some of the effects that these changes have on calculated emission and diagnostic line ratios, such as changes in the temperature implied by the He-like G-ratios of up to a factor of 2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1207.0576,
  title  = {Updated Atomic Data and Calculations for X-ray Spectroscopy},
  author = {A. R. Foster and L. Ji and R. K. Smith and N. S. Brickhouse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.0576},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Submitted to ApJ, 12 pages, 9 figures

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