The GRASP atomic structure code - current status, the CompAS collaboration and hopes for the future - presented by Dr Jon Grumer

The GRASP atomic structure code - current status, the CompAS collaboration and hopes for the future

Dr Jon Grumer

Dr Jon Grumer
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The GRASP atomic structure code - current status, the CompAS collaboration and hopes for the future
Dr Jon Grumer
Jon Grumer
Uppsala University

Associated Computer Physics Communications article

C. F. Fischer et al. (2018) GRASP2018—A Fortran 95 version of the General Relativistic Atomic Structure Package. Computer Physics Communications
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The quality and resolution of solar, stellar, and other types of astrophysical spectra have improved to the extent that the accuracy and availability of atomic data is frequently a limiting factor in the interpretation of observations in astronomy. With the new generation of ground-based spectrographs and space missions, such as the recent CRIRES+ upgrade on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), new demands are put on complete and accurate atomic data in the relatively unexplored infrared (IR) spectral regime. In particular, data on heavy, complex atomic species such as the various ionization stages of the Lanthanide and Actinide group of elements are needed for the interpretation of more exotic astrophysical events involving neutron-capture elements such as the Kilonova (KN) ejecta following the neutron-star merger observed in 2017. Analyses of such events require not only data of spectroscopic accuracy, e.g. for element identifications, but also complete data for accurate opacities in the radiative-transfer modeling to track e.g. the brightness evolution. Laboratory measurements, e.g. using ion/traps, beam-foil, or laser techniques, have been performed for isolated transitions and atoms, but no systematic laboratory studies exist or are currently in progress. Instead, the bulk of these atomic data must be calculated.

To solve these new challenges, multiconfigurational (Dirac-) Hartree-Fock methods, either non-relativistic with Breit-Pauli corrections or fully relativistic, could be considered a promising way forward. The main advantage of these approaches is their general applicability to excited and open-shell systems, including open f- and g-shells, across the whole periodic table, thus allowing for the production of extensive atomic data sets with transition energies and probabilities. Additional physical properties of interest can readily be determined from the obtained wavefunctions. The accuracy of such calculations depends on the complexity of the shell structure and on the underlying adopted model for describing electron correlation. By systematically increasing the basis in large-scale calculations, as well as exploring different models for electron correlation, it is often possible to provide an estimate of the accuracy.

In this talk I will describe our current, open-source , community effort within the Computational Atomic Physics (CompAS ) collaboration, to build upon the important and acclaimed work on state-of-the-art multiconfigurational codes by Profs. Charlotte F Fischer and Ian P Grant, with a particular focus on the relativistic variant: the general-purpose relativistic atomic structure package, GRASP .

References
  • 1.
    C. F. Fischer et al. (2018) GRASP2018—A Fortran 95 version of the General Relativistic Atomic Structure Package. Computer Physics Communications
  • 2.
    https://github.com/compas/grasp
  • 3.
    https://compas.github.io
Grants
    Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada2017–03851Vetenskapsrådet2015–04842Wenner-Gren StiftelsernaGFOv2017-0012
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J. Grumer (2022, February 8), The GRASP atomic structure code - current status, the CompAS collaboration and hopes for the future
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