Photoionization models of QSO's intervening absorption clouds |
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| Authors: | D A Verner D G Yakovlev |
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| Institution: | (1) A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. |
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| Abstract: | A new sufficiently compact code LINESPEC is described which is designed to determine the kinetic (collisional+photo) ionization equilibrium in a slab of a hot (T 104K) rarefied gas, and to simulate synthetic absorption-line spectra formed due to passing continuous radiation (from a quasar) through the slab. Eighty-six resonant absorption lines of ions and atoms of H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Fe are included with wavelengths in the range 912  5000 Å. the behaviour and observability of various lines are analysed as a function of intensity of the ionizing radiation and kinetic plasma temperature (for a power-law spectrum of ionizing photons,N
ph
(E)  E
– with =1.5;E is photon energy). For the purely collisional ionization (N
ph
=0), the spectrum contains various combinations of absorption lines of hydrogen and/or of atoms and ions of other elements, the relative intensities of the lines being strongly temperaturedependent. If the ionizing radiation is intense enough, the L line dominates. In a wide parameter range L may be the only line visible in the UV spectral range. |
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