AtomDB: Atomic data for X-ray astronomy
Abstract
This paper outlines some of the progress in the AtomDB project, which aims to model X-ray emission from hot, collisionally ionized plasmas. We define data formats for ionization, recombination, photo-ionization and autoionization. We discuss the inclusion of the XSTAR database in AtomDB, in particular using the photoionization data, and the progress in preparing a full non-equilibrium ionization model for use by modelers and observers.
- Publication:
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Eighth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications: ICAMDATA-2012
- Pub Date:
- July 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4815861
- Bibcode:
- 2013AIPC.1545..252F
- Keywords:
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- astrochemistry;
- astronomy computing;
- astrophysical plasma;
- X-ray astronomy;
- X-ray sources (astronomical);
- 95.30.Dr;
- 95.30.Qd;
- 95.75.Pq;
- 98.70.Qy;
- Atomic processes and interactions;
- Magnetohydrodynamics and plasmas;
- Mathematical procedures and computer techniques;
- X-ray sources;
- X-ray bursts