scholarly journals Formation of excited hydrogen atoms by charge transfer and dissociation. Progress report No. 9, December 1, 1972--November 30, 1973

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Thomas ◽  
I. Sauers ◽  
W. A. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms

scholarly journals Excitation and charge transfer in low-energy hydrogen atom collisions with neutral carbon and nitrogen

2019 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. A78 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Amarsi ◽  
P. S. Barklem
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Stellar Atmospheres ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Rate Coefficients ◽  
Collision Dynamics ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Stellar Spectra ◽  
Zero Rate ◽  
Excitation Processes

Low-energy inelastic collisions with neutral hydrogen atoms are important processes in stellar atmospheres, and a persistent source of uncertainty in non-LTE modelling of stellar spectra. We have calculated and studied excitation and charge transfer of C I and of N I due to such collisions. We used a previously presented method that is based on an asymptotic two-electron linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) model of ionic-covalent interactions for the adiabatic potential energies, combined with the multichannel Landau-Zener model for the collision dynamics. We find that charge transfer processes typically lead to much larger rate coefficients than excitation processes do, consistent with studies of other atomic species. Two-electron processes were considered and lead to non-zero rate coefficients that can potentially impact statistical equilibrium calculations. However, they were included in the model in an approximate way, via an estimate for the two-electron coupling that was presented earlier in the literature: the validity of these data should be checked in a future work.

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