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arxiv: 1207.0576 · v1 · pith:Z4MOLVILnew · submitted 2012-07-03 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM· astro-ph.SR

Updated Atomic Data and Calculations for X-ray Spectroscopy

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We describe the latest release of AtomDB, version 2.0.2, a database of atomic data and a plasma modeling code with a focus on X-ray astronomy. This release includes several major updates to the fundamental atomic structure and process data held within AtomDB, incorporating new ionization balance data, state-selective recombination data, and updated collisional excitation data for many ions, including the iron L-shell ions from Fe$^{+16}$ to Fe$^{+23}$ and all of the hydrogen- and helium-like sequences. We also describe some of the effects that these changes have on calculated emission and diagnostic line ratios, such as changes in the temperature implied by the He-like G-ratios of up to a factor of 2.

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