Concise Description

fiasco provides a Python interface to the CHIANTI, an atomic database used primarily for astrophysical spectroscopy.

Description

fiasco provides a Python interface to CHIANTI, an atomic database used primarily for astrophysical spectroscopy. It exposes high-level representations of ions, elements, levels, and transitions; parses and converts raw CHIANTI ASCII data into an HDF5 database; and computes common atomic-plasma quantities including level populations, ionization and recombination rates, contribution functions, emissivities, spectra, continuum emission, radiative losses, and equilibrium ionization. Its documented examples use those rates to calculate non-equilibrium ionization.

Authors

Will Barnes ( American University , Department of Physics, American University , Goddard Space Flight Center , United States Naval Research Laboratory )

Nabil Freij ( Bay Area Environmental Research Institute , Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory , SETI Institute )

Laura Hayes ( Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies , European Space Research and Technology Centre )

Stuart J. Mumford ( Aperio Software Ltd. , University of Sheffield )

Nicholas A. Murphy ( Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian , Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , Smithsonian Institution )

Jeffrey Reep ( University of Hawaii at Manoa )

David Stansby ( Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College London, UK , Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London , Imperial College London , Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , University College London )

Jacob Parker ( Montana State University )

Functionality

Data Processing and Analysis Analysis Data Access and Retrieval Energy Spectra File Format Conversion Processing Models and Simulations Physics-Based Theory

Technical Details

Programming Languages IDL Python 3.x

Operating Systems Linux Mac Operating System Independent Windows

CPU Architecture CPU Independent

Development Status Active

Publication Date Aug 10, 2017

Publisher Zenodo

Data & File Formats

Data Sources HTTP/HTTPS Directories

Input Formats ascii HDF5

Output Formats HDF5

Science Context

Related Phenomena Coronal Heating Coronal Mass Ejections Solar Corona Solar Flares X-ray emission Solar Wind

Related Regions Earth Atmosphere Interplanetary Space Solar Environment Corona Solar Wind

Keywords

astronomy astrophysics atomic data atomic physics chianti chianti atomic database Emission spectroscopy extreme ultraviolet heliophysics Ionization equilibrium ionosphere mesosphere Non-equilibrium ionization plasma physics pyhc package python Radiative loss science solar solar physics solar wind spectroscopy thermosphere

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