The K Spectrum of Iron L-Shell Ions in Photoionized
Plasmas
Dr. Duane Liedahl
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
P. O. Box 808, L-473
Livermore, CA 94550
Advancements in detector capabilities, exemplified by the
XRS on Astro-E 2, promise to uncover the spectral complexity
in the iron K spectrum in several classes of celestial X-ray
source, complexity that has been observed only in solar and laboratory
plasmas thus far. I have calculated detailed atomic models that
include the effects of inner-shell photoionization, autoionization,
collisional excitation at relatively high particle number densities,
and photoexcitation in plasmas with high X-ray and/or UV energy
densities. The primary applications of these models are accretion
disk atmospheres and winds in X-ray binaries.
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