Numerical simulations of Fe II emission spectra

被引:143
作者
Verner, EM [1 ]
Verner, DA
Korista, KT
Ferguson, JW
Hamann, F
Ferland, GJ
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Dept Phys & Astron, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[2] Western Michigan Univ, Dept Phys, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
[3] Wichita State Univ, Dept Phys, Wichita, KS 67260 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Diego, Ctr Astrophys & Space Sci, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
关键词
atomic processes; ISM; atoms; line; formation; methods; numerical;
D O I
10.1086/313171
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
This paper describes the techniques that we have used to incorporate a large-scale model of the Fe+ ion and resulting Fe II emission into CLOUDY, a spectral synthesis code designed to simulate conditions within a plasma and model the resulting spectrum. We describe the numerical methods we use to determine the level populations, mutual line overlap fluorescence, collisional effects, and the heating-cooling effects of the atom on its environment. As currently implemented, the atom includes the lowest 371 levels (up to 11.6 eV) and predicts intensities of 68,635 lines. We describe our data sources, which include the most recent transition probabilities and collision strengths. Although we use detailed fits to temperature-dependent collision strengths where possible, in many cases the uncertain (g) over bar approximation is the only source for collision data. The atom is designed to be readily expanded to include more levels acid to incorporate more accurate sets of collision and radiative data as computers grow faster and the atomic databases expand. We present several test cases showing that the atom goes to LTE in the limits of high particle and radiation densities. We give an overview of general features of the Fe II spectra as their dependencies on the basic parameters of our models (density, flux, microturbulent velocity, the Fe abundance, and Ly alpha pumping). Finally, we discuss several applications to active galactic nuclei to illustrate the diagnostic power of the Fe II spectrum and make some predictions for UV observations.
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