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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

Context. The radiation field consisting of hydrogen recombination lines and continuum emission might significantly affect the hydrogen-level populations in ultra- and hypercompact (U/HC) H II regions. The escape probability approximation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 F. -Y. Zhu , J. Wang , Y. Qiu , Q. -F. Zhu , D. Quan

Calculations of hydrogen departure coefficients using a model with the angular momentum quantum levels resolved that includes the effects of external radiation fields are presented. The stimulating processes are important at radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-08 Andri Prozesky , Derck P. Smits

Intensities of hydrogen Balmer-series lines are sensitive to distribution of populations of sublevels of excited state due to difference of radiative decay branching ratio for sublevels with different orbital quantum number. Since these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Polosatkin , A. Ivanov , A. Listopad , I. Shikhovtsev

We have introduced a new method of estimating the electron temperature and density of H II regions by using single dish observations. In this method, multiple hydrogen radio recombination lines of different bands are computed under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-14 F. -Y. Zhu , Q. -F. Zhu , J. -Z. Wang , J. -S Zhang

We investigate the possibility of maser amplification in hydrogen recombination lines from the galaxies of first generation, at z<~30. Combining analytical and computational approaches, we show that the transitions between the hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Brian B. Pomerantz , Kayla Redmond , Vladimir Strelnitski

We calculate the recombination spectra of the He-like ions He~I, C~V, N~VI, O~VII, Ne~IX, Mg~XI, Si~XIII, S~XV, Ar~XVII, Ca~XIX, and Fe~XXV. We include the following physical processes: radiative recombination, dielectronic recombination,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Bautista , T. R. Kallman

We present a theoretical investigation of the radiative recombination of twisted Bessel electrons with initially hydrogen-like (finally helium-like) heavy ions. In our study, we focus especially on the linear polarization of x-ray photons…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Anna V. Maiorova , Anton A. Peshkov , Andrey Surzhykov

We present improved fits to our treatment of suppression of dielectronic recombination at intermediate densities. At low densities, most recombined excited states eventually decay to the ground state, and therefore the total dielectronic…

The ion populations most frequently adopted for diagnostics in collisional plasmas are derived from the density independent, coronal approximation. In higher density, lower temperature conditions, ionisation rates are enhanced once…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 R. P. Dufresne , G. Del Zanna , N. R. Badnell

Hydrogen recombination lines provide key diagnostics of ionized gas in galaxies, yet most hydrodynamical simulations estimate hydrogen level populations using interpolated emissivity tables rather than computing them directly from local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuankang Liu , Tom Theuns , Tsang Keung Chan , Alexander J. Richings , Anna F. McLeod

The phenomenon of polarization of nuclei in the process of stimulated recombination of atoms in the field of circularly polarized laser radiation is considered. This effect is considered for the case of the proton-electron beams used in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 M. A. Kutlan

We investigate the effect of helium on hydrogen reionisation using a hydrodynamical simulation combined with the cosmological radiative transfer code CRASH. The simulations are run in a 35.12/h comoving Mpc box using a variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Ciardi , J. S. Bolton , A. Maselli , L. Graziani

We study the characteristics of photogenerated electron-hole plasma in optically pumped graphene layers at elevated (room) temperatures when the interband and intraband processes of emission and absorption of optical phonons play a crucial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , A. Satou , T. Otsuji

It is shown that taking into account a recoil for radiation scattering in the Ly-alpha line can lead to a noticable acceleration of primordial hydrogen recombination. Thus for LambdaCDM model a decrease of ionization degree exceeds 1% for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. I. Grachev , V. K. Dubrovich

Antihydrogen is produced by mixing an antiproton and a positron plasma in a cryogenic electromagnetic trap. The dominant antihydrogen formation mechanism is three-body recombination, while the subsequent level population evolution is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 B. Radics , Y. Yamazaki

Cosmological hydrogen recombination has recently been the subject of renewed attention because of its importance for predicting the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. It has become clear that it is necessary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Christopher M. Hirata

Here we report new ${\it ab initio}$ calculations of the effective recombination coefficients for the \ion{N}{ii} recombination spectrum. We have taken into account the density dependence of the coefficients arising from the relative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 X. Fang , P. J. Storey , X. -W. Liu

Hydrogen recombination lines (HRLs) are valuable diagnostics of the physical conditions in ionized regions around high-mass stars. Understanding their broadening mechanisms and intensity trends can provide insights into the densities,…

The HeII->HeI recombination of primordial helium plasma (z = 1500 - 3000) is considered in terms of the standard cosmological model. This process affects the formation of cosmic microwave background anisotropy and spectral distortions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 E. E. Kholupenko , A. V. Ivanchik , D. A. Varshalovich
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