ITERA: IDL Tool for Emission-line Ratio Analysis
Abstract
ITERA, the IDL Tool for Emission-line Ratio Analysis, is an IDL widget tool that allows you to plot ratios of any strong atomic and ionized emission lines as determined by standard photoionization and shock models. These "line ratio diagrams" can then be used to determine diagnostics for nebulae excitation mechanisms or nebulae parameters such as density, temperature, metallicity, etc. ITERA can also be used to determine line sensitivities to such parameters, compare observations with the models, or even estimate unobserved line fluxes.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- July 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013ascl.soft07012G
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- Software