wtbarnes / fiasco

Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database
http://fiasco.readthedocs.io/
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Include collisional-radiative method in level populations calculation #234

Open wtbarnes opened 1 year ago

wtbarnes commented 1 year ago

CHIANTI version 9 introudced the .auto and .rrllvlsuch that the processes of autoionization and dielectronic recombination from the lower and upper stages, respectively, could be included the level populations calculation. This modification is described in detail in the Appendix of the CHIANTI v9 paper.

The Ion.level_populations method will need to be modified significantly to incorporate these additional processes that factor into the level populations of the ion.

Before this can be addressed, #48 and #114 will need to be closed such that the needed data can be accessed in order to perform these calculations.