Suppression of dielectronic recombination due to finite density effects

Nikolic, D. and Gorczyca, T. W. and Korista, K. T. and Ferland, G. J. and Badnell, N. R. (2013) Suppression of dielectronic recombination due to finite density effects. Astrophysical Journal, 768 (1). 82. ISSN 1538-4357 (https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/768/1/82)

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Abstract

We have developed a general model for determining density-dependent effective dielectronic recombination (DR) rate coefficients in order to explore finite-density effects on the ionization balance of plasmas. Our model consists of multiplying by a suppression factor those highly-accurate total zero-density DR rate coefficients which have been produced from state-of-the-art theoretical calculations and which have been benchmarked by experiment. The suppression factor is based upon earlier detailed collision-radiative calculations which were made for a wide range of ions at various densities and temperatures, but used a simplified treatment of DR. A general suppression formula is then developed as a function of isoelectronic sequence, charge, density, and temperature. These density-dependent effective DR rate coefficients are then used in the plasma simulation code Cloudy to compute ionization balance curves for both collisionally ionized and photoionized plasmas at very low (n(e) = 1 cm(-3)) and finite (n(e) = 10(10) cm(-3)) densities. We find that the denser case is significantly more ionized due to suppression of DR, warranting further studies of density effects on DR by detailed collisional-radiative calculations which utilize state-of-the-art partial DR rate coefficients. This is expected to impact the predictions of the ionization balance in denser cosmic gases such as those found in nova and supernova shells, accretion disks, and the broad emission line regions in active galactic nuclei.

ORCID iDs

Nikolic, D., Gorczyca, T. W., Korista, K. T., Ferland, G. J. and Badnell, N. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7418-7996;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:44049
    Dates:
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    1 May 2013
    Published
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:13 Jun 2013 11:47
    Last modified:17 Nov 2024 11:55
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44049
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