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Collision Phenomena Involving Highly-Charged Ions in Astronomical Objects

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The Physics of Multiply and Highly Charged Ions

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Recent advances in the atomic collision physics of highly-charged ions (HCIs) relevant to new astronomical observations are reviewed. The atomic phenomena include electron-impact excitation, charge-exchange, direct and indirect recombination, emission from HCI metastable levels, and X-ray emission in HCI-neutral collisions. Comparisons with theory are given, where available, to help establish “ground truth” for theory. The experiments and theories can then be applied with good confidence to the modeling of the rich body of high-resolution absorption and emission spectra observed in the interstellar medium, and from solar, stellar, and comet atmospheres by spectrometers aboard the SOHO, Chandra, Newton, Hubble and other NASA-ESA spacecraft. The sophisticated space-borne data require equally high-quality laboratory data to work out conditions of electron density and temperature, ion density, ionization fraction, and E,B fields present in the astronomical plasmas.

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Chutjian, A. (2003). Collision Phenomena Involving Highly-Charged Ions in Astronomical Objects. In: Currell, F.J. (eds) The Physics of Multiply and Highly Charged Ions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0542-4_3

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