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Recent Advances in Atomic Modeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. H. Goldstein*
Affiliation:
High Temperature Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

Abstract

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Precision spectroscopy of solar plasmas has historically been the goad for advances in calculating the atomic physics and dynamics of highly ionized atoms. Recent efforts to understand the laboratory plasmas associated with magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, and with X-ray laser research, have played a similar role. Developments spurred by laboratory plasma research are applicable to the modeling of high-resolution spectra from both solar and cosmic X-ray sources, such as the photo-ionized plasmas associated with accretion disks. Three of these developments in large scale atomic modeling are reviewed: a new method for calculating large arrays of collisional excitation rates, a sum rule based method for extending collisional-radiative models and modeling the effects of autoionizing resonances, and a detailed level accounting calculation of resonant excitation rates in FeXVII.

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Type
1. X-rays from a Hot Plasma
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