X-ray Diagnostics
with Full Radiative Transfer (ALI Method)
Loïc Chevallier, Anne-Marie Dumont, Olivier
Godet, Suzy Collin
Observatoire de Paris - section de Meudon
5 place Jules Janssen
92195 MEUDON, FRANCE
With the advent of the present and future spatial X-ray missions,
it becomes crucial to model correctly the line spectrum of X-ray
emitting media. We have built a photoionization code, TITAN,
solving the transfer of a thousand lines and of the continuum
with the "Accelerated Lambda Iteration" method (ALI),
which is most reliable for line transfer. We give some details
about this method and a justification of its use as a complement
to usual approximations (e.g., escape probability or two-stream
approximation) made at present in other codes. Using our TITAN
code, new diagnostics based on He-like ion lines of the n=2 complex
are presented, in the case of photoionised media, for conditions
appropriate for the Warm Absorber in Seyfert 1 galaxies or the
X-ray emitting region in Seyfert 2 galaxies. We show in particular
the influence of the transfer method used on the G and R ratios
of He-like ions.
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