Fits to the rates of low-temperature dielectronic recombination. H. Nussbaumer & P. J. Storey (A&A 126, 75; A&AS 64, 545; A&AS 69, 123). Fit parameters for low-emperature dielectronic recombination rates. Byte-per-byte description of file: hdr.dat (25 records) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 --- Z Atomic number 4- 5 I2 --- N Number of electrons 7- 14 F8.4 --- a Fit parameter 16- 23 E8.2 --- b Fit parameter 25- 32 E8.2 --- c Fit parameter 34- 41 E8.2 --- d Fit parameter 43- 50 E8.2 --- f Fit parameter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /alpha = 10**(-12)*(a/t+b+c*t+d*t**2)*t**(-3/2)*exp(-f/t) cm**3/s t = T[K]/10**4 Note that there are two entries for Z=8, N=8 and for Z=8, N=5: 1st -- T < 2*10**4 K 2nd -- T > 2*10**4 K