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恒星大气中氢原子的非弹性碰撞

On inelastic hydrogen atom collisions in stellar atmospheres

P. S. Barklem, A. K. Belyaev, M. Guitou, N. Feautrier, F. X. Gadea, A. Spielfiedel

摘要:

非弹性氢原子碰撞对非LTE谱线形成的影响一直是,并且仍然是,恒星丰度分析的不确定性的一个重要来源,由于难以获得准确的数据,无论是实验还是理论上的低能原子碰撞。由于缺乏更好的替代方法,通常使用经典的“Drawin公式”。近几十年来,我们对这些碰撞的理解有了显著的提高,主要是通过一些详细的量子力学计算。在本文中,Drawin公式与量子力学计算的基础物理和由此产生的速率系数进行了比较。结果表明,Drawin公式不包含H原子碰撞直接激发背后的基本物理,重要的物理机制是量子力学性质。从数量上看,Drawin公式与现有的量子力学计算结果相比很差,通常会显著高估碰撞率,因为在跃迁之间会有显著的变化。

英文摘要:

The influence of inelastic hydrogen atom collisions on non-LTE spectral line formation has been, and remains to be, a significant source of uncertainty for stellar abundance analyses, due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate data for low-energy atomic collisions either experimentally or theoretically. For lack of a better alternative, the classical "Drawin formula" is often used. Over recent decades, our understanding of these collisions has improved markedly, predominantly through a number of detailed quantum mechanical calculations. In this paper, the Drawin formula is compared with the quantum mechanical calculations both in terms of the underlying physics and the resulting rate coefficients. It is shown that the Drawin formula does not contain the essential physics behind direct excitation by H atom collisions, the important physical mechanism being quantum mechanical in character. Quantitatively, the Drawin formula compares poorly with the results of the available quantum mechanical calculations, usually significantly overestimating the collision rates by amounts that vary markedly between transitions.

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