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Cloudy and the High-Resolution Microcalorimeter Revolution: Optical, UV, and X-ray Spectra of One-electron Systems

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arxiv 2412.01606 v2 pith:N5EJR7FY submitted 2024-12-02 astro-ph.HE

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With the launch of the XRISM microcalorimeter mission, space-based X-ray observations will achieve a record spectral resolving power of $R\equiv E/\Delta E\sim$1200. With this resolving power, emission features associated with fine-structure energy levels of some species will be resolved, sometimes for the first time. The plasma code, Cloudy, was not originally designed for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and throughout its history did not resolve fine-structure components of Lyman lines. Here we expand Cloudy to resolve these fine-structure energy levels and obtain predicted X-ray spectra that match the resolution of new microcalorimeter observations. We show how the Lyman lines can be used as column density indicators in the hot X-ray emitting gas in a cluster of galaxies such as Perseus, and examine their sensitivity to external radiation fields and turbulence.

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  1. New Insights with XRISM & Cloudy: A novel Column Density Diagnostic

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    The Lyα1/Lyα2 doublet ratio of H-like ions is proposed and demonstrated as a plasma column density diagnostic, decreasing from 2 to 1 as column density increases from about 1e20 to 1e24 cm^-2.

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