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2025ApJ...991..203G - Astrophys. J., 991, 203 (2025/October-1)

CLOUDY and the High-resolution Microcalorimeter Revolution: Optical, UV, and X-Ray Spectra of One-electron Systems.

GUNASEKERA C.M., VAN HOOF P.A.M., CHATZIKOS M. and FERLAND G.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

With the launch of the XRISM microcalorimeter mission, space-based X-ray observations will achieve a record spectral resolving power of R ≡ E/ΔE ∼ 1200. With this resolving power, emission features associated with fine-structure energy levels of some species will be resolved, sometimes for the first time. The plasma code, CLOUDY, was not originally designed for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and throughout its history did not resolve fine-structure components of Lyman lines. Here, we expand CLOUDY to resolve these fine-structure energy levels and obtain predicted X-ray spectra that match the resolution of new microcalorimeter observations. We show how the Lyman lines can be used as column density indicators in the hot X-ray emitting gas in a cluster of galaxies such as Perseus, and examine their sensitivity to external radiation fields and turbulence.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): High mass x-ray binary stars - Atomic data - Radiative transfer - High energy astrophysics - X-ray binary stars

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