Rayleigh scattering treatment (trac #370)

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The appendix to this paper has a nice discussion of Rayleigh scattering. We could use this to improve our treatment.

A New Generation of Los Alamos Opacity Tables 
Colgan, J., Kilcrease, D. P., Magee, N. H., Sherrill, M. E., Abdallah, Jr., J., Hakel, P., Fontes, C. J., Guzik, J. A., & Mussack, K. A.
2016, \apj, 817, 116

ABSTRACT: We present a new, publicly available set of Los Alamos OPLIB opacity 
tables for the elements hydrogen through zinc. Our tables are computed using 
the Los Alamos ATOMIC opacity and plasma modeling code, and make use of 
atomic structure calculations that use fine-structure detail for all the elements 
considered. Our equation of state model, known as ChemEOS, is based on the 
minimization of free energy in a chemical picture and appears to be a reasonable 
and robust approach to determining atomic state populations over a wide range 
of temperatures and densities. In this paper we discuss in detail the calculations 
that we have performed for the 30 elements considered, and present some 
comparisons of our monochromatic opacities with measurements and other 
opacity codes. We also use our new opacity tables in solar modeling calculations 
and compare and contrast such modeling with previous work.

KEYWORDS: opacity, plasmas
NOTE: 

LOCAL FILE : ~/Dropbox/literature/atomic_data/Opacities_total/Colgan.J16A-New-Generation-of-Los-Alamos-Opacity-Tables.pdf
REMOTE URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/116
REMOTE URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01005
REMOTE URL : http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...817..116C
ADS URL : http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...817..116C

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