First Evidence of Enhanced Recombination in Astrophysical Environments and the Implications for Plasma Diagnostics

We report the first unambiguous observational evidence of Rydberg Enhanced Recombination (RER), a potentially important recombination mechanism that has hitherto been unexplored in low-temperature photoionized plasmas. RER shares similarities with dielectronic recombination, with the difference that...

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