Dielectronic recombination data for dynamic finite-density plasmas. XIII. The magnesium isoelectronic sequence
Abstract
We have calculated total and partial final-state level-resolved dielectronic recombination (DR) rate coefficients for the ground and metastable initial levels of 21 Mg-like ions between Al+ and Xe42+. This is the final part of the assembly of a level-resolved DR database necessary for modelling dynamic finite-density plasmas within the generalized collisional-radiative framework. Calculations have been performed in both LS- and intermediate coupling, allowing for Δ n = 0 and Δ n = 1 core-excitations from ground and metastable levels. Complementary partial and total radiative recombination RR coefficients have been calculated for the same ions viz. Al+ through Zn18+, as well as Kr24+, Mo30+, and Xe42+. Fitting coefficients which describe the total RR and DR rate coefficients (separately) are also presented here. Results for a selection of ions from this sequence are discussed, and compared with existing theoretical and experimental results. A full set of results can be accessed from the Atomic Data and Analysis Structure (ADAS) database or from the Oak Ridge Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center (http://www-cfadc.phy.ornl.gov/data_and_codes). The complexity of further M-shell sequences, both from the atomic and modelling perspectives, renders this juncture a natural conclusion for the assemblage of the partial database. Further M-shell work, has and will, focus more on total rate coefficients, rather than partials, at least in the medium term.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2007
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- Bibcode:
- 2007A&A...474.1051A
- Keywords:
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- atomic data;
- atomic processes;
- plasmas