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Table 1.

Initial elemental abundances.

Species Fractional Reference
abundance (a)
H 0.9999
H2 5e−5
He 9.55e−2 1
O 5.7544e−4 1
C+ 2.0893e−4 1
N 5.7544e−5 1
Mg+ 3.6308e−5 1
Si+ 3.1623e−5 1
Fe+ 2.7542e−5 1
S+ 1.66e−5 2
Na+ 1.74e−6 3
Cl+ 2.88e−7 2
P+ 2.57e−7 3
F 3.63e−8 3
e 3.233e−4 (b)

Notes.

(a)

We define the fractional abundance X(i) as the ratio of the abundance of species i wrt the total gas-phase hydrogen number density, which is initially equal to X(H) + 2X(H2).

(b)

The total electron fraction is simply initialized as the sum of the gas-phase cations.

References. (1) Przybilla et al. (2008); (2) Esteban et al. (2004); (3) Asplund et al. (2008).

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