Population of Excited States of Al 10+ in a Plasma by a Time-Dependent Model

The present model is the time-dependent version of a previous model (Sureau et al. 1983) in which the population distribution was assumed in steady state. A finite set of levels is partitioned in four subsets: the Z-ion ground-level and, contingently, the first near-degenerated levels (subset 1); al...

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Veröffentlicht in:International Astronomical Union Colloquium 1984, Vol.86, p.221-224
Hauptverfasser: Guennou, H., Sureau, A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present model is the time-dependent version of a previous model (Sureau et al. 1983) in which the population distribution was assumed in steady state. A finite set of levels is partitioned in four subsets: the Z-ion ground-level and, contingently, the first near-degenerated levels (subset 1); all the successive excited Z-ion levels up to n=5 (subset 2); a finite number of higher Rydberg levels (because of the limitation of the series in the plasmas) which are assumed in LTE with the Z+l−ion ground-level (subset 3, called the thermal band); and the Z+l ion ground-level (subset 4). The physical processes explicitly considered are the radiative cascades and the transitions between the Z-ion bound levels induced by electron-ion collisions. The radiative-transition probabilities are given by ab-initio calculations using a modified Hartree-Fock method including the spin-orbit interaction (Sureau et al., 1984). The collision rates are derived by the Van Regemorter formula multiplied by an adjustable parameter F c .
ISSN:0252-9211
DOI:10.1017/S0252921100085791