On the importance of satellite lines to the He-like K ALPHA complex and the G ratio for calcium, iron, and nickel

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2008-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/0811.2240v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The definitive version is available at

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14248.x

New, more detailed calculations of the emission spectra of the He-like K ALPHA complex of calcium, iron and nickel have been carried out using data from both distorted-wave and R-matrix calculations. The value of the GD ratio (an extended definition of the G ratio that accounts for the effect of resolved and unresolved satellite lines) is significantly enhanced at temperatures below the temperature of He-like maximum abundance. Furthermore it is shown that satellite lines are important contributors to the GD ratio such that GD/G>1 at temperatures well above the temperature of maximum abundance. These new calculations demonstrate, with an improved treatment of the KLn (n>=3) satellite lines, that K ALPHA satellite lines need to be included in models of He like spectra even at relatively high temperatures. The excellent agreement between spectra and line ratios calculated from R-matrix and distorted-wave data also confirms the validity of models based on distorted-wave data for highly charged systems, provided the effect of resonances are taken into account as independent processes.

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