Effective radiative cooling in optically thin plasmas

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Jun 1993

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 273, p. 318 (1993)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

62

Atomic Processes, Interstellar Medium: General, Plasmas

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We present the radiative cooling rates and cooling timescales of an optically thin atomic gas for the temperature range 102 K to 1O9 K, calculated in a thermally self-consistent, time-dependent approach. The most important emission lines of the ten most abundant elements have been considered as well as the relevant continuum processes. We compare the cooling rate of a gas in collisional ionization equilibrium with those of gases with nonequilibrium ionization. We also compare the time-dependent ionization states of all considered elements with those of steady- state calculations. Time-dependent ionization stages, cooling rates and timescales are influenced by the previous history of the gas and by the thermodynamical path (e.g., isochoric or isobaric) of cooling. As basic applications we investigate the rôle of the metallicity and of the interstellar photon field for the effective time-dependent cooling in thin gases.

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