Issue |
A&A
Volume 566, June 2014
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Article Number | A104 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423864 | |
Published online | 23 June 2014 |
R-matrix electron-impact excitation data for the Be-like iso-electronic sequence ⋆
1
Department of PhysicsUniversity of Strathclyde,
Glasgow
G4 0NG, UK
e-mail: luis.fernandez-menchero@strath.ac.uk
2
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
CB3 0WA,
UK
Received: 21 March 2014
Accepted: 15 May 2014
Aims. Emission lines from ions in the Be-like isoelectronic sequence can be used for reliable diagnostics of temperature and density of astrophysical and fusion plasmas over a wide range of temperatures. Surprisingly, interpolated data is all that is available for a number of astrophysically important ions.
Methods. We have carried out intermediate coupling frame transformation R-matrix calculations which include a total of 238 fine-structure levels in both the configuration interaction target and close-coupling collision expansions. These arise from the configurations 1s2 2 {s, p} nl with n = 3−7, and l = 0−4 for n ≤ 5 and l = 0−2 for n = 6,7.
Results. We obtain ordinary collision strengths and Maxwell-averaged effective collision strengths for the electron-impact excitation of all the ions of the Be-like sequence, from B+ to Zn26+. We compare with previous R-matrix calculations and interpolated values for some benchmark ions. We find good agreement for transitions n = 2−2 with previous R-matrix calculations but some disagreements with interpolated values. We also find good agreement for the most intense transitions n = 2−3 which contribute via cascade to the (n = 2) diagnostic radiating levels.
Key words: atomic data / techniques: spectroscopic
These data are made available in the archives of APAP via http://www.apap-network.org and OPEN-ADAS via http://open.adas.ac.uk
© ESO, 2014
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