AtomNeb: IDL Library for Atomic Data of Ionized Nebulae
Abstract
Spectra emitted from ionized nebulae typically contain collisionally excited and recombination lines, which can be used to trace physical conditions and chemical abundances of the interstellar medium in our Galaxy and other galaxies. "AtomNeb" is a database containing atomic data stored in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format, including the data for collisionally excited and recombination lines generally observed in nebular astrophysics. The AtomNeb interface library is equipped with several application programming interface (API) functions developed in the Interactive Data Language (IDL), which can be also used in the GNU Data Language (GDL). This IDL library relies on the FITS file related IDL procedures from the IDL Astronomy User's library. The AtomNeb IDL library, together with the "proEQUIB" IDL library, can be used to perform plasma diagnostics and abundance analysis of emission lines from ionized gaseous nebulae.
- Publication:
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The Journal of Open Source Software
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- DOI:
- 10.21105/joss.00898
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.02528
- Bibcode:
- 2019JOSS....4..898D
- Keywords:
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- spectral analysis;
- IDL;
- astrophysics;
- atomic data;
- GDL;
- gaseous nebulae;
- Prolog;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, published in The Journal of Open Source Software. The code and its documentation are available at https://github.com/atomneb/AtomNeb-idl and its archive at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2584420