http://www.springer.com/jp/book/9783540655480
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999LNP...520..109M
1 Introduction 109
I X-Ray Spectral Modeling of Hot Plasmas 110
2 Radiation Processes and Plasma Models 110
3 Spectral Modeling of Optically Thin Plasmas 113
3.1 General scheme 113
3.2 Spectral fitting with SPEX 113
4 Coronal Model 115
4.1 Deviations from the coronal CIE model approximation 117
II Ionization and Recombination in a Coronal Plasma 125
5 Ionization Balance 125
5.1 Accuracy of atomic physics for the ionization balance 126
5.2 Update of the ionization balance by improved calculations for the rate coefficients 127
6 Rate Coefficients for Ionization 128
6.1 Collisional ionization 128
7 Rate Coefficients for Recombination 135
7.1 Radiative recombination; the Milne equation 137
7.2 Dielectronic recombination 141
III Formation of X-Ray Spectra in a Coronal Plasma 145
8 Line Radiation 146
8.1 Excitation processes 148
8.2 Radiative transitions 157
9 Continuum Radiation 162
IV Diagnostics of Plasma Parameters 166
10 Electron Temperature 166
11 Elemental Abundances 167
12 Ionization Balance in NEI 167
13 Electron Density 167
14 Differential Emission Measure 170
15 Diagnostics of Satellite Lines 172
15.1 Dielectronic recombination (DR) satellite intensity 173
15.2 Inner-shell excitation (IE) 174
15.3 Inner-shell ionization (II) 175
15.4 Diagnostics 175
16 Comparison of Calculated Spectra and Accuracy 181
17 Summary 182
References 182
