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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 12: Poster Astrophysik

EP 12.1: Poster

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 16:30–19:00, Poster.IV

Atomic data for atmosphere modelling of neutron stars with intense magnetic fields — •Christoph Schimeczek, Thorsten Kersting, and Günter Wunner — 1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart

X-ray absorption spectra of highly magnetised neutron stars like 1E 1207.4-5209 show several line features, whose origin still cannot be explained satisfactorily, due to the lack of atomic data at magnetic field strengths of about 10⁸ T. Our group has developed and optimized several tools to describe the properties of all atoms from hydrogen to iron, i.e. their wavefunctions, binding energies, bound-bound oscillator strengths and bound-free cross sections as well as partition functions in such fields. Thus we can provide all relevant data to experts in the field of modelling highly magnetised stellar atmospheres.