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This work is concerned with the development of a novel, accurate equation of state for describing partially ionised air plasma in local thermodynamic equilibrium. One key application for this new equation of state is the simulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Frederik Träuble , Stephen Millmore , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

We describe a technique to derive constraints on the differential emission measure (DEM) distribution, a measure of the temperature distribution, of collisionally ionized hot plasmas from their X-ray emission line spectra. This technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick S. Wojdowski , Norbert S. Schulz

The increasing number of spectra gathered by spectroscopic sky surveys and transiting exoplanet follow-up has pushed the community to develop automated tools for atmospheric stellar parameters determination. Here we present a novel approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Luca Malavolta , Christophe Lovis , Francesco Pepe , Christopher Sneden , Stephane Udry

The measurement of stellar properties such as chemical compositions, masses and ages, through stellar spectra, is a fundamental problem in astrophysics. Progress in the understanding, calculation and measurement of atomic properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Paul S. Barklem

Stark broadening theory is currently operated for calculating widths and shifts of spectral lines that are needed for spectroscopic diagnostics and modelling in astrophysics, laboratory and technological plasmas. We have calculated a great…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Sylvie Sahal-Brechot , Milan S. Dimitrijevic , Nebil Ben Nessib

Effects of radio-frequency power and driven frequency on the two-dimensional (axial and radial) distributions of electron density and temperature were experimentally investigated in low pressure capacitively coupled argon plasmas. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Jidun Wu , Hao Zheng , Yanfei Wang , Fengzhu Zhou , Xiaojiang Huang

A simple model and method is proposed here to determine argon metastable number densities and electron temperature with the assumption of a Maxwell-Boltzmann electron energy distribution. This method is based on the availability of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Davide Mariotti , Yoshiki Shimizu , Takeshi Sasaki , Naoto Koshizaki

We present He-like line ratios (resonance, intercombination and forbidden lines) for totally and partially photoionized media. For solar plasmas, these line ratios are already widely used for density and temperature diagnostics of coronal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Delphine Porquet , Jacques Dubau

A new experimental technique for investigating characteristics of plasma generated with plasmotrons in electrophysical installations was proposed. The technique involves a simultaneous registration of both radiation spectra and images of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Yu. Khomich , I. I. Kumkova , Yu. A. Zheleznov

We report results from a series of PIC simulations carried out to investigate the interaction of intense laser light with overdense plasma and in particular, aspects of the harmonic emission spectrum generated in these interactions. Recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim James Morrow Boyd , Ricardo Ondarza-Rovira

Many astrophysical environments such as X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, and accretion disks of compact objects have photoionized plasmas. The strong photoionizing environment found near these bright X-ray sources can be produced in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Pawel M. Kozlowski , Roberto C. Mancini , Mark E. Koepke

The plasma parameters such as electron distribution function and electron density of three atmospheric-pressure transient discharges namely filamentary and homogeneous dielectric barrier discharges in air, and the spark discharge of argon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sandra Keller , Priyadarshini Rajasekaran , Nikita Bibinov , Peter Awakowicz

Precise characterization and tailoring of the spatial and temporal evolution of plasma density within plasma sources is critical for realizing high-quality accelerated beams in plasma wakefield accelerators. The simultaneous use of two…

We present work on H alpha spectral line characteristics in PHOENIX stellar model atmospheres and their comparison to microlensing observations. We examine in detail the H alpha equivalent width (EW) and the line shape characteristics for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christine Thurl , Penny D. Sackett , Peter H. Hauschildt

In astrophysics, atomic transition line opacity is a primary source of uncertainty in theoretical calculations of radiative transfer. Much of this uncertainty is dominated by the inability to resolve the lines in frequency, leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Jonathan Morag

Understanding and interpretation of the dynamics of ultrarelativistic plasma is a challenge, which calls for the development of methods for \textit{in situ} probing the plasma dynamical characteristics. We put forward a new method,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The design of an experiment, e.g., the setting of initial conditions, strongly influences the accuracy of the whole process of determining model parameters from data. We impose a sensitivity-based approach for choosing optimal design…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Stefan Kindermann , Stepan Papacek

In this paper, we developed a spectral emulator based on the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Stellar Library (MaStar) and a grouping optimization strategy to estimate effective temperature (T_eff), surface gravity (log…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Jun-chao Liang , A-Li Luo , Yin-Bi Li , Xiao-Xiao Ma , Shuo Li , Shu-Guo Ma , Hai-Ling Lu , Yun-Jin Zhang , Bing Du , Xiao Kong

Numerical simulations of L-mode plasma turbulence in the Scrape Off Layer of MAST are presented. Relevant features of the boundary plasma, such as the thickness of the density layer or the statistics of the fluctuations are related to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 F Militello , W Fundamenski , V Naulin , A H Nielsen

A model has been proposed for estimation of plasma parameters of explosive electron emission pulses in vacuum arc discharge. It based on transition through the critical state during the explosion and allow to predict the cathode spot plasma…

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