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Ca VIII - VERSION 5.1

The CHIANTI database consists of the following primary ASCII files for this ion:

  1. ca_8.elvlc (energy levels)

    2. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental and theoretical values of the levels energies. 

     
%observed energy levels: Churilov S.S., Levashov V.E., 1993, Physica Scripta 48, 425
%theoretical energy levels: Churilov S.S., Levashov V.E., 1993, Physica Scripta 48, 425
%comment: Churilov et al. experimental energies have been used to calculate A values from
          line strengths, so they are reported instead of the theoretical energies
%produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration
%
% Enrico Landi - Aug 2001

  2. ca_8.wgfa (radiative data)

    3. contains wavelengths, gf and A values of the transitions. The wavelengths are based on the experimental energy levels and should be the best available. Wavelengths calculated from the theoretical energies are of an indeterminate accuracy and their values are presented as negative values of the calculated wavelength. 

     
%observed energy levels: Churilov S.S., Levashov V.E., 1993, Physica Scripta 48, 425
%Radiative data: Landi, Storey & Zeippen 2004, ApJ, 607, 640
%produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration
%
% Enrico Landi - Sept 2001

  3. ca_8.splups (electron collision data)

    4. contains the spline fits to the electron collision strengths scaled according the rules formulated by Burgess and Tully (1992). Accurate replication of the temperature averaged collision strength over a wide range of temperatures can be accomplished with the data in this file. 

     

%filename: ca_8.splups
%oscillator strengths: Landi, Storey, & Zeippen, 2004, ApJ, 607, 640
%effective collision strengths: Landi, Storey & Zeippen, 2004, ApJ, 607, 640
%Comment: upsilon have been fitted in the range 4.5 < Log T < 7.0
%produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration
%
% Enrico Landi - Sept 2001

  4. ca_8.splups (proton collisional data) Not available in this VERSION.

    5. The html table below contains the radiative data of the brightest lines sorted in wavelength

    ca_8_table.html (html table)


    Last revised by G. Del Zanna on 4-Sep-2009