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Fast and accurate approximations of gas cooling and heating functions are needed for hydrodynamic galaxy simulations. We use machine learning to analyze atomic gas cooling and heating functions computed by Cloudy in the presence of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 David Robinson , Camille Avestruz , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Here we present our current updates of the gas-phase chemical reaction rates and molecular lines in the spectral synthesis code CLOUDY, and its implications in spectroscopic modelling of various astrophysical environments. We include energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Gargi Shaw , G. J. Ferland , M. Chatzikos

For the reliable analysis and modelling of astrophysical, laser-produced and fusion plasmas, atomic data are required for a number of parameters, including energy levels, radiative rates and electron impact excitation rates. Such data are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Km Aggarwal , Fp Keenan

The James Webb Space Telescope has ushered in an era of abundant high-redshift observations of young stellar populations characterized by strong emission lines, motivating us to integrate nebular emission into the new Maraston stellar…

The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (LAMDA) collects spectroscopic information and collisional rate coefficients for molecules, atoms, and ions of astrophysical and astrochemical interest. We describe the developments of the database…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-24 Floris van der Tak , François Lique , Alex Faure , John Black , Ewine van Dishoeck

Accurate and comprehensive diatomic molecular spectroscopic data have long been vital in a wide variety of applications for measuring and monitoring astrophysical, industrial and other gaseous environments. These data are also used…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Laura K. McKemmish

We present a simple, yet powerful column density diagnostic for plasmas enabled by X-ray microcalorimeter observations. With the recent developments of the spectral simulation code Cloudy, inspired by the high spectral resolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Chamani M. Gunasekera , Peter A. M. van Hoof , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Gary J. Ferland

It is important to understand the origin of molecular line intensities and chemical composition in the molecular-cloud scale in the Galactic sources because it serves as a benchmark to compare with the chemical compositions of extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Nanase Harada , Yuri Nishimura , Yoshimasa Watanabe , Satoshi Yamamoto , Yuri Aikawa , Nami Sakai , Takashi Shimonishi

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…

DUSTY solves the problem of radiation transport in a dusty environment. The code can handle both spherical and planar geometries. The user specifies the properties of the radiation source and dusty region, and the code calculates the dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeljko Ivezic , Maia Nenkova , Moshe Elitzur

We've developed a scalable and sustainable online atomic data portal with an automated interface for easy update and addition of new data. The current portal provides energies, transition matrix elements, transition rates, radiative…

A two-body gas-phase reaction rate coefficient can be given by the usual Arrhenius-type formula which depends on temperature. The UMIST Database for Astrochemistry is a widely used database for reaction rate coefficients. They provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 Gargi Shaw , Gary Ferland , M. Chatzikos

We use the Breit Pauli $R$-matrix method to calculate accurate energies and radiative data for states in C I up to $n$=30 and with $l\le 3$. We provide the full dataset of decays to the five 2s$^2$2p$^2$ ground configuration states…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 P. J. Storey , R. P. Dufresne , G. Del Zanna

The Atom portal, udel.edu/atom, provides the scientific community with easily accessible high-quality data about properties of atoms and ions, such as energies, transition matrix elements, transition rates, radiative lifetimes, branching…

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. R. Foster , L. Ji , R. K. Smith , N. S. Brickhouse

Understanding the Fe II emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has been a grand challenge for many decades. The rewards from understanding the AGN spectra would be immense, involving both quasar classification schemes such as…

We use the PyNeb 1.1.16 Python package to evaluate the atomic datasets available for the spectral modeling of [Fe II] and [Fe III], which list level energies, A-values, and effective collision strengths. Most datasets are reconstructed from…

The CHIANTI atomic database provides sets of assessed data used for simulating spectral observations of astrophysical plasmas. This article describes updates that will be released as version~10.1 of the database. A key component of CHIANTI…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Kenneth Dere , Giulio Del Zanna , Peter Young , Enrico Landi

Atomic ensembles, comprising clouds of atoms addressed by laser fields, provide an attractive system for both the storage of quantum information, and the coherent conversion of quantum information between atomic and optical degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 S. D. Barrett , P. P. Rohde , T. M. Stace

We present an extended ultraviolet-blue (850-4700 AA) library of theoretical stellar spectral energy distributions (SEDs) computed at high resolution, R= 50,000. The UVBLUE grid, as we named the library, is based on LTE calculations carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. H. Rodriguez-Merino , M. Chavez , E. Bertone , A. Buzzoni