Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Mar 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997uky..rept.....f&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, Kentucky Univ. Lexington, KY United States Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Statistics
Computation
Quasars, Emission Spectra, Computational Astrophysics, Spectrum Analysis, Red Shift, Line Spectra, Luminosity, Metallicity, Elliptical Galaxies, Abundance, Radiative Recombination
Scientific paper
A large-scale code called Cloudy was designed to simulate non-equilibrium plasmas and predict their spectra. The goal was to apply it to studies of galactic and extragalactic emission line objects in order to reliably deduce abundances and luminosities. Quasars are of particular interest because they are the most luminous objects in the universe and the highest redshift objects that can be observed spectroscopically, and their emission lines can reveal the composition of the interstellar medium (ISM) of the universe when it was well under a billion years old. The lines are produced by warm (approximately 104K) gas with moderate to low density (n less than or equal to 1012 cm-3). Cloudy has been extended to include approximately 104 resonance lines from the 495 possible stages of ionization of the lightest 30 elements, an extension that required several steps. The charge transfer database was expanded to complete the needed reactions between hydrogen and the first four ions and fit all reactions with a common approximation. Radiative recombination rate coefficients were derived for recombination from all closed shells, where this process should dominate. Analytical fits to Opacity Project (OP) and other recent photoionization cross sections were produced. Finally, rescaled OP oscillator strengths were used to compile a complete set of data for 5971 resonance lines. The major discovery has been that high redshift quasars have very high metallicities and there is strong evidence that the quasar phenomenon is associated with the birth of massive elliptical galaxies.
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