Electron-Ion Recombination Rate Coefficients and Photoionization Cross Sections for Astrophysically Abundant Elements. IX. Ni XXVI and Ni XXVII for UV and X-ray modeling

Details Electron-Ion Recombination Rate Coefficients and Photoionization Cross Sections for Astrophysically Abundant Elements. IX. Ni XXVI and Ni XXVII for UV and X-ray modeling Electron-Ion Recombination Rate Coefficients and Photoionization Cross Sections for Astrophysically Abundant Elements. IX. Ni XXVI and Ni XXVII for UV and X-ray modeling

2005-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503197v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Astrophys. J. Supplements

Scientific paper

10.1086/428666

The inverse processes of photoionization and electron-ion recombination of (hnu + Ni XXVI --> Ni XXVII + e and (hnu + Ni XXVII --> Ni XXVIII + e) are studied using the unified method for the total recombination. The method subsumes both the radiative and di-electronic recombination processes and enables self-consistent sets of results for photoionization and electron-ion recombination by using the same wavefunction expansion. Photoionization cross sections (sigma_PI), recombination cross sections (sigma_{RC}), recombination collision strengths (Omega_{RC}), and recombination rate coefficients (alpha_{RC}) are obtained for ionization balance and spectral analysis of UV and X-ray lines. Level-specific photoionization cross sections and recombination rates are presented to enable accurate computation of recombination-cascade matrices for all fine structure levels n(SLJ) up to n <= 10: 98 bound fine structure levels of Ni XXVI with 0 <= l <= 9, 0 <= L <= 11, 1/2 <= J <= 17/2, and 198 levels of Ni XXVII with 0 <= l <= 9, 0 <= L <= 14, 0 <= J <= 10. Total alpha_{RC} for Ni XXVI and Ni XXVII are compared with the existing values with very good agreement. Total recombination rate coefficients for the hydrogen-like recombined ion, Ni XXVIII, are also presented. The calculations are carried out in relativistic Breit-Pauli R-matrix (BPRM) approximation with inclusion of radiation damping of resonances. With consideration of all details of the processes, the results, which include the level specific sigma_{PI} and alpha_{R} calculated for the first time, should be the most accurate for these ions.

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