Abstract
We update our prior work on the case B collisional-recombination spectrum of He i to incorporate ab initio photoionization cross-sections. This large set of accurate, self-consistent cross-sections represents a significant improvement in He i emissivity calculations because it largely obviates the piecemeal nature that has marked all modern works. A second, more recent set of ab initio cross-sections is also available, but we show that those are less consistent with bound-bound transition probabilities than our adopted set. We compare our new effective recombination coefficients with our prior work and our new emissivities with those by other researchers, and we conclude with brief remarks on the effects of the present work on the He i error budget. Our calculations cover temperatures 5000 ≤ Te 25 000 K and densities 101 ≤ ne ≤ 1014 cm−3. Full results are available online (see Supporting Information).
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2012
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2012.01300.x
Funding Information
The authors thank the University of Kentucky Center of Computational Sciences for a generous allotment of computer time. GJF acknowledges support by NSF (0908877, 1108928 and 1109061), NASA (07-ATFP07-0124, 10- ATP10-0053 and 10-ADAP10-0073), JPL (RSA no. 1430426) and STScI (HST-AR-12125.01, GO-12560 and HST-GO-12309).
Related Content
Erratum: 'Improved He I emissivities in the Case B approximation'. Published in Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 433, no. 1, p. L89-L90, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt049. Click here to access article in UKnowledge.
Repository Citation
Porter, R. L.; Ferland, Gary J.; Storey, P. J.; and Detisch, M. J., "Improved He I Emissivities in the Case B Approximation" (2012). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 242.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/242
Supplementary File 1
MNL2_1300_sm.txt (1 kB)
Supplementary File 2
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 425, no. 1, p. L28-L31.
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