Excitation and charge transfer in low-energy hydrogen atom collisions with neutral manganese and titanium
Abstract
Data for inelastic processes due to hydrogen atom collisions with manganese and titanium are needed for accurate modeling of the corresponding spectra in late-type stars. In this work excitation and charge transfer in low-energy Mn+H and Ti+H collisions have been studied theoretically using a method based on an asymptotic two-electron linear combination of an atomic orbitals model of ionic-covalent interactions in the neutral atom-hydrogen-atom system, together with the multichannel Landau-Zener model to treat the dynamics. Extensive calculations of charge transfer (mutual neutralization, ion-pair production), excitation and de-excitation processes in the two collisional systems are carried out for all transitions between covalent states dissociating to energies below the first ionic limit and the dominating ionic states. Rate coefficients are determined for temperatures in the range 1000-20 000 K in steps of 1000 K. Like for earlier studies of other atomic species, charge transfer processes are found to lead to much larger rate coefficients than excitation processes.
The complete set of data is made available in electronic form at: https://github.com/barklem/public-data.- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- May 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201937434
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2003.10029
- Bibcode:
- 2020A&A...637A..28G
- Keywords:
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- atomic data;
- atomic processes;
- line: formation;
- Sun: abundances;
- stars: abundances;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables