CHIANTI - Chianti Emission Line List, Version 3.01 |
HEASARC Archive |
K. P. Dere, E. Landi, H.E. Mason, B. C. Monsignori Fossi, P. R. Young, "CHIANTI - An Atomic Database for Emission Lines Paper I: Wavelengths greater than 50 Angstroms", Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl. Ser., Vol. 125, pp. 149-173 (1997). P.R. Young, E. Landi and R.J. Thomas, "CHIANTI - An Atomic Database for Emission Lines Paper II: Comparison with the SERTS-89 Active Region Spectrum", Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 329, pp. 291-314 (1998). E. Landi, M. Landini, K.P. Dere, P.R. Young, H.E. Mason, "CHIANTI - an atomic database for emission lines, III - Continuum radiation and extension of the ion database", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 135, 339 (1999). K. P. Dere, E. Landi, G. Del Zanna, P.R. Young, "CHIANTI - an atomic database for emission lines, IV - Extension to X-ray Wavelengths", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 134, 331 (2001).
The updated HEASARC version of the Chianti database was created in December 2000, based on the tables chianti_1_50.html and chianti_50_1100.html obtained from the NRL Chianti website at http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/.
Duplicate entries were removed from the HEASARC implementation of this table in June 2019.
Solar_Wavelength
The observed wavelength in the solar spectrum in Angstroms obtained from the
literature sources listed in the parameter line_reference. This is an average
value of the wavelengths observed in the various reported spectra. Reported
wavelengths that differed by less than a chosen wavelength difference DLam
were in general simply averaged to arrive at the quoted value. For
wavelengths below 400 AA, DLam was set to 0.03 AA, for wavelengths between
400 and 600 AA, DLam was set to 0.04 AA, and for wavelengths above 600 AA,
DLam was set to 0.05 AA. The value of the observed wavelength is set to
0.000 AA if there is no report of an observed line at the wavelength of a
reasonably intense line predicted by CHIANTI.
Chianti_Wavelength
The wavelength in Angstroms (AA) in the CHIANTI database. In those cases
where the transition is not in the CHIANTI database but an observed
wavelength is reported, the value of the CHIANTI wavelength is set to 0.000
AA and the value of the intensity is set to undefined.
Ion
The ion stage that gives rise to the particular spectral line.
Lower_Level
The spectroscopic notation for the lower level of the transition. Notice that
superscripts and subscripts have not been rendered as such in our
representation, but are implicit by the ordering and spacing, e.g., for the
level 1s 2p 1P1, in the 1P1 part the first 1 is a superscript and the second
1 is a subscript; for the level 1s2 1S0, in the 1s2 part the 2 is a
superscript, while in the 1S0 part the 1 is a superscript and the 0 is a
subscript.
Upper_Level
The spectroscopic notation for the upper level of the transition. Notice that
superscripts and subscripts have not been rendered as such in our
representation, but are implicit by the ordering and spacing, e.g., for the
level 1s 2p 1P1, in the 1P1 part the first 1 is a superscript and the second
1 is a subscript; for the level 1s2 1S0, in the 1s2 part the 2 is a
superscript, while in the 1S0 part the 1 is a superscript and the 0 is a
subscript.
Intensity
The predicted intensity of the line expected from a solar flare using the
differential emission measure distribution (DEM) derived by Dere and Cook
(1979, ApJ, 229, 772). The intensities are calculated from the DEM, which
spans the temperature range 30,000 to 25 million K, with the elemental
abundances of Allen (1973, Astrophysical Quantities), and the ionization
equilibria of Arnaud and Rothenflug (1985, A&AS, 60, 425). The intensity
values should only be used as a guide to the identification and the problem
of blending, and should be used in a relative sense. Lines with predicted
intensities less than 10 were not considered likely to be observed. Some
identifications should be considered simply coincidental. Predicted spectral
lines with intensities above 200 were included even if there was no reported
line at that wavelength: the observed wavelengths are set to 0.000 for such
cases. Finally, the value of the intensity is set to 0.000 if the line is
observed but it is not included in the CHIANTI database.
Line_Reference
Numerical codes for the literature sources of the observed wavelengths as
follows:
1: Acton et al. (1985ApJ...291..865A) 2: Behring et al. (1972ApJ...175..493B) 3: Behring et al. (1976ApJ...203..521B) 4: Dere (1978ApJ...221.1062D) 5: Freeman & Jones (1970SPh....15..288F) 6: Thomas & Neupert (1994, Cat. <J/ApJS/91/461>) 7: Widing & Sandlin (1968ApJ...152..545W) 8: Kastner et al. (1974ApJ...191..261K) 9: Burton & Ridgeley (1970SPh....14....3B) 10: Feldman & Doschek (1991ApJS...75..925F) 11: Fawcett et al. (1987MNRAS.225.1013F) 12: Fawcett et al. 1987, revised by Phillips et al. (1999A&AS..138..381P) 13: Feldman et al. (1980ApJ...238..365F) 14: McKenzie et al. (1980ApJ...241..409M) 15: McKenzie & Landecker (1982ApJ...254..309M) 16: McKenzie et al. (1985ApJ...289..849M) 17: Phillips et al. (1982ApJ...256..774P) 18: Phillips et al. (1999A&AS..138..381P) 19: Doschek (1972SSRv...13..765D) 20: Pike et al. (1996ApJ...464..487P)