Atomic data for plasma spectroscopy: The CHIANTI database, improvements and challenges

Giulio Del Zanna; Peter R. Young

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Atomic data for plasma spectroscopy: The CHIANTI database, improvements and challenges

Giulio Del Zanna^*, Peter R. Young

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CHIANTI is an atomic database and software package for modeling emission lines and continua from hot astrophysical plasmas. It is freely available to all researchers and has been widely used in the Heliophysics and Astrophysics communities for almost 25 years. In this review, we summarize the properties of the current version of the database and give an overview of the relevant atomic processes. We also discuss progress towards a complete implementation of collisional-radiative modeling, simultaneously solving for atomic level and ion populations for individual elements.

Original language	English
Article number	46
Number of pages	16
Journal	Atoms
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ATOMS8030046
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2020
Externally published	Yes

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A&M databases
Data assessment
Plasma modeling codes

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