The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance

Srećković, Vladimir A.; Dimitrijević, Milan S.; Ignjatović, Ljubinko M.; Bezuglov, Nikolai N.; Klyucharev, Andrey N.

doi:10.3390/galaxies6030072

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The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance

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Vladimir A. Srećković

¹

,

Milan S. Dimitrijević

^2,3,*

,

Ljubinko M. Ignjatović

¹,

Nikolai N. Bezuglov

⁴ and

Andrey N. Klyucharev

⁴

¹

Institute of Physics, Belgrade University, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia

²

Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia

³

LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, UMR CNRS 8112, UPMC, 92195 Meudon CEDEX, France

⁴

Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Galaxies 2018, 6(3), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6030072

Submission received: 17 June 2018 / Revised: 6 July 2018 / Accepted: 12 July 2018 / Published: 16 July 2018

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atomic and Molecular Data Needs for Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Elementary processes in astrophysical environments traditionally attract researchers’ attention. We present the data needed for the inclusion of the specific atomic collisional processes in the investigation of the optical and kinetic properties of weakly ionized stellar atmosphere layers. The first type of processes are collisional ionisation (chemi-ionization) processes, and the second ones are excitation and de-excitation (i.e., (

n - n^{'}

)-mixing processes). We give the rate coefficients of the aforementioned processes for the conditions that exist in the solar photosphere, the atmosphere of DB white dwarfs, M-type red dwarfs, etc.

Keywords: atomic data; molecular data; atomic and molecular databases

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Srećković, V.A.; Dimitrijević, M.S.; Ignjatović, L.M.; Bezuglov, N.N.; Klyucharev, A.N. The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance. Galaxies 2018, 6, 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6030072

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Srećković VA, Dimitrijević MS, Ignjatović LM, Bezuglov NN, Klyucharev AN. The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance. Galaxies. 2018; 6(3):72. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6030072

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Srećković, Vladimir A., Milan S. Dimitrijević, Ljubinko M. Ignjatović, Nikolai N. Bezuglov, and Andrey N. Klyucharev. 2018. "The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance" Galaxies 6, no. 3: 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6030072

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Srećković, V. A., Dimitrijević, M. S., Ignjatović, L. M., Bezuglov, N. N., & Klyucharev, A. N. (2018). The Collisional Atomic Processes of Rydberg Hydrogen and Helium Atoms: Astrophysical Relevance. Galaxies, 6(3), 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6030072

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