Dear Colleague,
we would like to announce the release of Version 8.0 of the CHIANTI
database for astrophysical spectroscopy.
It includes several new entries and revises the atomic data for
many ions. In addition, the method for computing the
differential emission measure has been changed.
The details can be found in the paper, accepted for publication
in A&A and available on:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07631
CHIANTI can be accessed as a stand-alone by downloading the tar files at
our web pages:
For users that mirror Solarsoft, the CHIANTI package will be automatically
updated.
For any comments and questions please sign up on our google group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chianti
(our previous email address, chianti_help@louis14.nrl.navy.mil
is no longer active)
Note:
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a new version of ChiantiPy (http://chiantipy.sourceforge.net/),
compatible with V 8, will be released.
Important note:
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for various reasons, it has been necessary to modify the format
of the elvlc and splups files.
The elvlc files have been restructured but retain the same name,
while the splups files have been significantly revised and are now renamed
as “scups” files. For both the updated elvlc and new scups files, an
ascii fixed text width format has been retained.
We have modified the CHIANTI software to read these new files, but all
the main software is left unchanged.
The new database and IDL programs are incompatible with the
previous CHIANTI versions and vice-versa.
best regards,
Giulio Del Zanna for the CHIANTI consortium