https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00879-7
Regular Article - Atomic Physics
Xstar atomic database: the PyXstar package
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X-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, Code 662, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA
2
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), 20005, Washington, DC, USA
3
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 90154, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Received:
26
March
2024
Accepted:
3
June
2024
Published online:
9
July
2024
We present a progress report on the development of PyXstar, a Python package to manage the data (input, output, intermediate, atomic database, and model-grids) associated with the xstar code for treating photoionized and collisionally ionized plasmas. The PyXstar modular structure and database retrieval scheme are described, and its functionality is illustrated with Python functions and classes for performing database searches. We briefly compare PyXstar with two other Python spectrum modeling tools: PyNeb and PyAtomDB.
Timothy R. Kallman, Ralf Ballhausen, Anna Ogorzałek, Randall Dannen, Javier A. García have contributed equally to this work.
Dr. Claudio Mendoza passed away during the final stages of the preparation of this manuscript. His obituary will appear separately in the journal Atoms.
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