Collision strengths in FeIX Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Tayal S.S.
  2. Zatsarinny O.
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    CDS
Abstract

Collision strengths and thermally averaged collision strengths for a large number of extreme-ultraviolet lines of FeIX arising by electron impact have been reported. The thermally averaged collision strengths are calculated at electron temperatures in the range 10^4^-10^7^K for the 122043 forbidden and allowed transitions between the 370 fine-structure levels. The atomic parameters for FeIX play an important role in modeling of various astrophysical plasmas, including especially the solar corona. The B-spline Breit-Pauli R-matrix method has been used in the calculation of collision strengths. The target wave functions and transition probabilities have been determined by combining the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock method with the B-spline box-based multichannel expansions. We have included 370 fine-structure levels of FeIX in the energy region up to 3s^2^3p^5^5s states. The close-coupling expansion includes levels of the 3s^2^3p^6^, 3s^2^3p^5^3d, 4l, 5s, 3s3p^6^3d, 4s, 4p, 3s^2^3p^4^3d^2^, 3s3p^5^3d^2^ configurations and some low-lying levels of the 3s^2^3p^3^3d^3^ configuration in our collision strengths and transition probabilities calculations. There is a good agreement with the previous R-matrix collision strength calculations by Storey et al. (2002, J/A+A/394/753) and Del Zanna et al. (2014, J/A+A/565/A77) for transitions between the lowest 17 levels of the 3s^2^3p^6^, 3s^2^3p^5^3d and 3s3p^6^3d configurations, especially for electron temperatures logT(K)>=5.0. The transitions between the first 17 levels are dominated by Rydberg series of resonances converging to the levels of the 3s^2^3p^4^3d^2^ configuration. The present results and the calculation of Del Zanna et al. show significant differences for many weaker forbidden and intercombination transitions with thermally averaged collision strengths smaller than 0.01.

Keywords
  1. atomic-physics
  2. astronomical-models
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2015ApJ...812..174T
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2016-03-07T13:52:19Z
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