2001/06/19 by Justin Oelgoetz, J. Oelgoetzty, Anil K. Pradhan · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Atomic and Molecular Physics #High-pressure geophysics and materials #astro-ph #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04980.x
published as MNRAS, 2001, 327, L42 · 5 pages, 4 Figs., submitted to MNRAS. High-resolution, full-size figures are available from http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pradhan
arxiv created 2001/06/19 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
It is shown that the dielectronic satellites (DES) dominate X-ray spectral formation in the 6.7-keV Kα complex of Fe xxv at temperatures below that of maximum abundance in collisional ionization equilibrium Tm. Owing to their extreme temperature sensitivity, the DES are excellent spectral diagnostics for in photoionized, collisional or hybrid plasmas; whereas the forbidden, intercombination and resonance lines of Fe xxv are not. A diagnostic line ratio GD(T) is defined including the DES and the lines, with parameters from new relativistic atomic calculations. The DES absorption resonance strengths may be obtained from differential oscillator strengths, possibly to yield the column densities. The DES contribution to highly ionized Fe should be of interest for models of redward broadening of Kα features, ionized accretion discs, accretion flows and Kα temporal-temperature variability in AGN.