Absorption measurements demonstrating the importance of Δn=0 transitions in the opacity of iron
- 20 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (3) , 438-441
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.438
Abstract
Novel opacity calculations, which treat in detail the spectra of medium-Z ions [Rogers and Iglesias, Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 79, 507 (1992)], produce results that are substantially different from opacity calculations extant in the literature. These new opacities provide solutions to a number of outstanding problems in astrophysics, thus providing an indirect validation of the theory. We report the results of an experiment measuring the photoabsorption in the spectral region from 50 to 120 eV of x-ray-heated iron which corroborate these new opacity calculations.Keywords
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