Monthly Archives: January 2013
Effect of a High Opacity on the Light Curves of Radioactively Powered Transients from Compact Object Mergers
Barnes, Jennifer (1) & Kasen D. (1) ((1) University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) The coalescence of compact objects is a promising source of detectable gravitational wave (GW) signals. The science returns from a GW detection can be … Continue reading
Iron Mining Eta Carinae’s Archived Spectra and Benchmarking Atomic Data
Urech Alexander (1), Bautista M. (1), Gull T. R. (2), Hartman H. (3) and Fivet V. (1) ((1) Western Michigan University; (2) NASA Goddar Space Flight Center; (3) Lund Observatory, Sweden) Fe II has proven to be one of the … Continue reading
Assessment of atomic data: problems and solutions
Kanti M. Aggarwal & Francis P. Keenan (Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT71NN, Northern Ireland, UK) For the reliable analysis and modelling of astrophysical, laser-produced and fusion plasmas, atomic data are required for … Continue reading
Uncertainties in Atomic Data and Their Propagation Through Spectral Models. I
M.A. Bautista (1), V. Fivet (1,2), P. Quinet (2), J. Dunn (3), T.R. Gull (4), T.R. Kallman (5), C. Mendoza (6) ((1) Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA; (2) Astrophysique et Spectroscopie, UniversitĂ© de Mons UMONS, … Continue reading