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In photoionized gases with cosmic abundances, dielectronic recombination (DR) proceeds primarily via nlj --> nl'j' core excitations (Dn=0 DR). We have measured the resonance strengths and energies for Fe XVIII to Fe XVII and Fe XIX to Fe…

Photoionization cross sections and recombination rate coefficients are presented for the L-shell ground state fine structure levels $2s^22p^4 \ ^3P_{2,0,1}$ of Fe~XIX. Several sets of calculations including relativistic effects are carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hong Lin Zhang , Anil K. Pradhan

We present multi-configuration Breit-Pauli distorted-wave photoionization (PI) cross sections and radiative recombination (RR) and dielectronic recombination (DR) rate coefficients for the first six krypton ions. These were calculated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. C. Sterling

Effective collision strengths for forbidden transitions among the 5 energetically lowest finestructure levels of O II are calculated in the Breit-Pauli approximation using the R-matrix method. Results are presented for the electron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Kisielius , P. J. Storey , G. J. Ferland , F. P. Keenan

Photoionization and recombination cross sections and rate coefficients are calculated for Li-like Fe XXIV and He-like Fe XXV using the Breit-Pauli R-matrix (BPRM) method. A complete set of total and level-specific parameters is obtained to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sultana N. Nahar , Anil K. Pradhan , Hong Lin Zhang

We have measured electron-ion recombination for Fe$^{9+}$ forming Fe$^{8+}$ and for Fe$^{10+}$ forming Fe$^{9+}$ using merged beams at the TSR heavy-ion storage-ring in Heidelberg. The measured merged beams recombination rate coefficients…

For crucial tests between theory and experiment, ab initio close coupling calculations are carried out for photoionization of O II, O III, O IV, O V. The relativistic fine structure and resonance effects are studied using the R-matrix and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sultana N. Nahar

High spectral resolution spectroscopy has proved to be very useful for the advancement of chemical abundances studies in photoionized nebulae, such as H II regions and planetary nebulae (PNe). Classical analyses make use of the intensity of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Esteban , J. Garcia-Rojas , A. Mesa-Delgado , L. Toribio San Cipriano

Based on high quality observations of multiplet V1 of OII and the NLTE atomic computations for OII we study the density and temperature of a sample of PNe. We find that, in general, the densities derived from recombination lines of OII are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-22 Antonio Peimbert , Manuel Peimbert , Gloria Delgado-Inglada , Jorge Garcia-Rojas , Miriam Peña

The unified method for total electron-ion recombination is extended to study the dielectronic satellite (DES) lines. These lines, formed from radiative decay of autoionizing states, are highly sensitive temperature diagnostics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. N. Nahar , J. Oelgoetz , A. K. Pradhan

The rate coefficient for radiative and dielectronic recombination of berylliumlike magnesium ions was measured with high resolution at the Heidelberg heavy-ion storage ring TSR. In the electron-ion collision energy range 0-207 eV resonances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Schippers , M. Schnell , C. Brandau , S. Kieslich , A. Mueller , A. Wolf

This paper presents a study of the dependence of the simulated intensities of recombination lines from hydrogen and helium atoms on the number of $n\ell$-resolved principal quantum numbers included in the calculations. We simulate hydrogen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 F. Guzmán , M. Chatzikos , G. Ferland

We consider the effect of optical depth of the 2 ^{3}S level on the nebular recombination spectrum of He I for a spherically symmetric nebula with no systematic velocity gradients. These calculations, using many improvements in atomic data,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert A. Benjamin , Evan D. Skillman , Derck P. Smits

Recent state-of-the-art calculations of A-values and electron impact excitation rates for Fe III are used in conjunction with the Cloudy modeling code to derive emission line intensity ratios for optical transitions among the fine-structure…

Rate coefficients for photorecombination (PR) and cross sections for electron-impact ionization (EII) of Fe$^{14+}$ forming Fe$^{13+}$ and Fe$^{15+}$, respectively, have been measured by employing the electron-ion merged-beams technique at…

We calculate the electron recombination rates with target ions W$^{q+}$, $q = 18$ -- $25$, as functions of electron energy and electron temperature (i.e. the rates integrated over the Maxwellian velocity distribution). Comparison with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Harabati , J. C. Berengut , V. V. Flambaum , V. A. Dzuba

This study presents calculations of rate coefficients, resonance strengths, and cross sections for the dielectronic recombination (DR) of $\text{Y}^{+}$, $\text{Sr}^{+}$, $\text{Te}^{2+}$, and $\text{Ce}^{2+}$-low-charge ions relevant to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Suvam Singh , Zoltán Harman , Christoph H. Keitel

Deep optical spectra of the high excitation planetary nebula NGC 1501 and its W04 central star are presented. A recombination line abundance analysis of the central star's emission-line spectrum yields He:C:O mass fractions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara Ercolano , R. Wesson , Y. Zhang , M. J. Barlow , O. De Marco , T. Rauch , X. -W. Liu

We present in this paper new and updated calculations of the ionization equilibrium for all the elements from H to Ni. We collected for these elements all the data available in the literature for the ionization and radiative plus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Mazzotta , G. Mazzitelli , S. Colafrancesco , N. Vittorio

Since the last IAU symposium on planetary nebulae (PNe), several deep spectroscopic surveys of the relatively faint optical recombination lines (ORLs) emitted by heavy element ions in PNe and H II regions have been completed. New diagnostic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. -W. Liu