The 2017 release of CLOUDY

Ferland, G. J. and Chatzikos, M. and Guzmán, F. and Lykins, M. L. and van Hoof, P. A. M. and Williams, R. J. R. and Abel, N. P. and Badnell, N. R. and Keenan, F. P. and Porter, R. L. and Stancil, P. C. (2017) The 2017 release of CLOUDY. Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrfisica, 53 (2). pp. 385-438. (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/rmaa/RMxAA..53-2/PDF/R...)

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Abstract

We describe the 2017 release of the spectral synthesis code Cloudy , summa- rizing the many improvements to the scope and accuracy of the physics which have been made since the previous release. Exporting the atomic data into external data files has enabled many new large datasets to be incorporated into the code. The use of the complete datasets is not realistic for most calculations, so we describe the lim- ited subset of data used by default, which predicts significantly more lines than the previous release of Cloudy . This version is nevertheless faster than the previous release, as a result of code optimizations. We give examples of the accuracy limits using small models, and the performance requirements of large complete models. We summarize several advances in the H- and He-like iso-electronic sequences and use our complete collisional-radiative models to establish the densities where the coronal and local thermodynamic equilibrium approximations work.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:62202
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    31 October 2017
    Published
    28 June 2017
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:01 Nov 2017 11:37
    Last modified:24 Apr 2024 09:43
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62202
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