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A community developed python package for spectroscopy.
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Add function(s) for continuum lowering #26

Open lemmatum opened 6 years ago

lemmatum commented 6 years ago

There some equations for approximating atomic energy level shifts due to continuum lowering - we should add these. I believe David Salzmann's Atomic Physics in Hot Plasmas has some simple equations which we could start with. Such functions would be handy especially for dense plasmas.

lemmatum commented 6 years ago

Section 3.2 in Salzmann (pg 58) is where continuum lowering and line shifts starts.

lemmatum commented 6 years ago

Paper by B. J. B. Crowley which provides a good reviews on Stewartt-Pyatt, plus accounts for relaxation effects which may have been seen in relatively recent continuum lowering measurements.

CHEMEOS paper has a different continuum lowering model, which is used by some codes at LANL. It includes changes to the statistical weights within a charge state.