The STARK-B Database VAMDC Node

摘要

Accurate spectroscopic diagnostics and modelling require the knowledge of numerous collisional line profiles. The access to such data via an on line database is essential. The aim of STARK-B is to meet these needs for widths and shifts of "isolated" lines of neutral and ionized atoms due to electron and ion impacts. It is devoted to modelling and spectroscopic diagnostics of stellar atmospheres and envelopes, laboratory plasmas, laser equipments and technological plasmas. So, the range of temperatures and densities covered by the tables is broad and depends on the ionization degree of the radiating atom. STARK-B is a collaborative project between the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade (AOB) and the laboratory LERMA at Observatory of Paris, which started at the end of 2008. STARK-B is a database of LERMA and a node of VAMDC (Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre) and thus complies with the standards of the Virtual Observatories. This database opened at the end of 2008. Today, the database contains our calculated data for a various number of transitions of neutral or ionized atoms, published in more than 150 papers in international refereed journals. We continue to implement our previously published data, and the new ones as soon as they are published. A summary of the scientific objectives, the key points of the impact-semiclassical-perturbation method used for the calculations, the current state of development of our ongoing work and our plans for the future objectives of the database are presented. Finally, an example of the results of a query is displayed.