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Title:
Updated opacities from the Opacity Project
Authors:
Badnell, N. R.; Bautista, M. A.; Butler, K.; Delahaye, F.; Mendoza, C.; Palmeri, P.; Zeippen, C. J.; Seaton, M. J.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG), AB(Centro de Física, IVIC, PO Box 21827, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela), AC(Universitätssternwarte München, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679, München, Germany), AD(Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, OH 43210-1173, USA; LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, F-92195, Meudon, France), AE(Centro de Física, IVIC, PO Box 21827, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela), AF(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA), AG(LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, F-92195, Meudon, France), AH(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 360, Issue 2, pp. 458-464. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
06/2005
Origin:
MNRAS
Astronomy Keywords:
atomic processes, radiative transfer, stars: interiors
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08991.x
Bibliographic Code:
2005MNRAS.360..458B

Abstract

Using the code AUTOSTRUCTURE, extensive calculations of inner-shell atomic data have been made for the chemical elements He, C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe and Ni. The results are used to obtain updated opacities from the Opacity Project (OP). A number of other improvements on earlier work have also been included.

Rosseland-mean opacities from the OP are compared with those from OPAL. Differences of 5-10 per cent occur. The OP gives the `Z-bump', at log(T) ~= 5.2, to be shifted to slightly higher temperatures. The opacities from the OP, as functions of temperature and density, are smoother than those from OPAL.

The accuracy of the integrations used to obtain mean opacities can depend on the frequency mesh used. Tests involving variation of the numbers of frequency points show that for typical chemical mixtures the OP integrations are numerically correct to within 0.1 per cent.

The accuracy of the interpolations used to obtain mean opacities for any required values of temperature and density depends on the temperature-density meshes used. Extensive tests show that, for all cases of practical interest, the OP interpolations give results correct to better than 1 per cent.

Prior to a number of recent investigations which have indicated a need for downward revisions in the solar abundances of oxygen and other elements, there was good agreement between properties of the Sun deduced from helioseismology and from stellar evolution models calculated using OPAL opacities. The revisions destroy that agreement. In a recent paper, Bahcall et al. argue that the agreement would be restored if opacities for the regions of the Sun with 2 × 106<~T<~ 5 × 106 K (0.7-0.4 Rsolar) were larger than those given by OPAL by about 10 per cent. In the region concerned, the present results from the OP do not differ from those of OPAL by more than 2.5 per cent.

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