Calculation of the rate coefficients for the electron impact excitation of the N = 2 terms of O IV

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Astrophysics, Collision Rates, Electron Impact, Ionic Collisions, Oxygen Isotopes, Astronomy, Electron Energy, Electron States, Novae, Planetary Nebulae

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The collision strengths for the excitation of the n = 2 terms in O IV from the ground and metastable terms are determined for energies from the first excitation threshold to 5.6 Ryd in a close-coupling approximation. The collision strengths at a fine energy mesh are generated using the analytic fits derived from the resonance structure obtained in the reactance matrices. The rate coefficients for temperatures between 10,000-200,000 K are then obtained by integrating these collision strengths. It is found that this method of calculation offers an improvement over previous calculations due to the inclusion of closed-channel resonances which can increase the rate coefficients for the intercombination transitions considerably, an increase of nearly a factor of two for the 4P-2P transition.

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