Plasma environment effects on K lines of astrophysical interest. II. Ionization potentials, K thresholds, radiative rates, and Auger widths in Ne- through He-like iron ions (Fe XVII - Fe XXV)
Abstract
Aims: In the context of accretion disks around black holes, we estimate plasma-environment effects on the atomic parameters associated with the decay of K-vacancy states in highly charged iron ions, namely Fe XVII - Fe XXV.
Methods: Within the relativistic multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock (MCDF) framework, the electron-nucleus and electron-electron plasma screenings were approximated with a time-averaged Debye-Hückel potential.
Results: Modified ionization potentials, K thresholds, wavelengths, radiative emission rates, and Auger widths are reported for astrophysical plasmas characterized by electron temperatures and densities in the ranges 105 - 107 K and 1018 - 1022 cm-3, respectively.
Conclusions: We conclude that the high-resolution microcalorimeters on board future X-ray missions such as XRISM and ATHENA are expected to be sensitive to the lowering of the iron K edge due to the extreme plasma conditions occurring in accretion disks around compact objects.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- June 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201935444
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.06458
- Bibcode:
- 2019A&A...626A..83D
- Keywords:
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- black hole physics;
- plasmas;
- atomic data;
- X-rays: general;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, 7 figures, submitted to A&