Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...545l.161l&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 545, Issue 2, pp. L161-L164.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
60
Atomic Data, Methods: Laboratory, Stars: Individual: Name: Capella, Sun: Corona, Techniques: Spectroscopic, X-Rays: General
Scientific paper
We report new observations of emission line intensity ratios of Fe XVII under controlled experimental conditions, using the National Institute of Standards and Technology electron beam ion trap (EBIT) with a microcalorimeter detector. We compare our observations with collisional-radiative models using atomic data computed in distorted wave and R-matrix approximations, which follow the transfer of the polarization of level populations through radiative cascades. Our results for the intensity ratio of the 2p61S0- 2p53d1P1 15.014 Å line to the 2p61S0- 2p53d3D1 15.265 Å line are 2.94+/-0.18 and 2.50+/-0.13 at beam energies of 900 and 1250 eV, respectively. These results are not consistent with collisional-radiative models and support conclusions from earlier EBIT work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that the degree of resonance scattering in the solar 15.014 Å line has been overestimated in previous analyses. Further observations assess the intensity ratio of the three lines between the 2p6-2p53s configurations to the three lines between the 2p6-2p53d configurations. Both R-matrix and distorted wave approximations agree with each other and our experimental results much better than most solar and stellar observations, suggesting that other processes not present in our experiment must play a role in forming the Fe XVII spectrum in solar and astrophysical plasmas.
Bandler Simon R.
Barbera Marco
Beeman Jeff
Bhatia Anand K.
Brickhouse Nancy S.
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