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Implement function to obtain charge state distribution #37

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lemmatum opened this issue Apr 10, 2018 · 1 comment
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Implement function to obtain charge state distribution #37

lemmatum opened this issue Apr 10, 2018 · 1 comment

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See this discussion in PlasmaPy.

Saha-Boltzmann may be a good starting point. This should be temperature and density sensitive. We can then test it against NIST.

CHIANTI and fiasco have functions for this, but for diffuse, high-temperature plasmas (e.g. solar corona), where LTE doesn't hold. We may be able to call those for certain non-LTE distributions, but we should implement our own more general methods to cover wider range of plasmas.

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I think I've got most of the pieces to implement a version of this using Saha-Boltzmann equations.

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