High Fidelity Line Diagnostics for the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission
Abstract
We will provided a database of line diagnostic ratios for the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission and other existing missions, with realistic, relevant uncertainty estimates, including for the first time preserving correlations between fundamental atomic parameters and the final line ratios. By generating for the first time realistic, physically motivate and properly energy dependent uncertainties on fundamental atomic data, with careful comparison to the existing experimental data, we will enable good diagnostics to be used with improved confidence while identifying those which turn out to be poorly constrained and should be avoided. We will release this data in the publicly accessible AtomDB database, complete with tools to create correlated line ratio estimates for instruments with arbitrary spectral resolution. This data will benefit all current and future X-ray missions, including XARM, Athena, Chandra and XMM-Newton in particular. The techniques are also expected to be applicable to non-X-ray spectra.
- Publication:
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NASA APRA Proposal
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016apra.prop...92F