CHIANTI

An Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas.

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George Mason University (USA) - University of Michigan (USA) - University of Cambridge (UK) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA)

Detailed Documentation of the CHIANTI IDL procedures

Continuum: procedures for calculating the free-free, free-bound and two-photon continuum

Convert: utility procedures for various conversions

Dem: procedures for calculating the differential emission measure (DEM)

Em: a procedure

Emiss: procedures for calculating line emissivities

Ionrec: procedures for calculating ionization cross sections and rates, recombination rates, and ionization equilibria

Level population: procedures for calculating and plotting level populations

Ratios: procedures for calculating line intensity ratios as a function of density and temperature

Read: utility procedures for reading the various files in the database

Read: Sets up system variables for the CHIANTI routines

Synt_spec: Calculate synthetic spectra

Utilities: Various utilities