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| CHIANTI (database) | |
|---|---|
| Name | CHIANTI |
| Type | Atomic database |
| Discipline | Astrophysics |
| Country | International |
| Established | 1997 |
CHIANTI (database) is an atomic database and software package widely used in astrophysical spectroscopy for emitting-plasma diagnostics, spectral synthesis, and radiative loss calculations. Developed through collaborations among researchers at institutions such as the University of Cambridge, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, it underpins analysis for missions including SOHO, Hinode, SDO, and Chandra. The project combines atomic data, spectral models, and executable tools to derive plasma parameters for studies by teams affiliated with ESA, JAXA, and other agencies.
CHIANTI integrates atomic models for ionized species relevant to astrophysical plasmas studied by observatories such as the European Space Agency's SOHO and Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Solar Dynamics Observatory, and JAXA's Hinode. It provides collisional radiative models used by researchers at institutions like the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and the University of Cambridge. The database supports analysis workflows common to teams working on projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Princeton University, and the Stanford University solar physics groups. Users include participants in collaborations with the European Space Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and national observatories such as the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the National Solar Observatory.
CHIANTI's core products include energy levels, radiative transition probabilities, electron collisional excitation rates, proton rates, and ionization and recombination rate coefficients used by analysts from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, and California Institute of Technology. The database contains atomic models for elements from hydrogen through nickel relevant to instruments like XMM-Newton and Hitomi and for missions supported by the European Southern Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute. It supplies emissivity functions used in spectral fitting packages developed at institutions such as MIT, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and Johns Hopkins University. CHIANTI datasets feed into modeling efforts associated with the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and ground-based facilities such as the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and the Big Bear Solar Observatory.
Atomic data in CHIANTI are compiled from literature produced by research groups at the Institute of Physics (IOP), American Physical Society journals, and national laboratories including Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rates and cross sections derive from theoretical calculations by teams at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, and the University of Copenhagen as well as experimental measurements from facilities like the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Data processing pipelines harmonize disparate sources using standards developed in cooperation with organizations such as the International Astronomical Union and the Committee on Data for Science and Technology. Versioned releases are coordinated with groups from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Cambridge, and the University College London.
CHIANTI is distributed with software interfaces in languages used at institutions such as NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Stanford University, including packages callable from environments maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the European Space Agency. The project includes IDL tools historically adopted by teams at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Python libraries used by researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Chicago. Supported utilities interoperate with spectral analysis systems like those from the Chandra X-ray Center, the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, and community codes developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Integration adapters have been employed in pipelines at observatories such as the National Solar Observatory and the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Researchers use CHIANTI for diagnostics applied in studies led by groups at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley to infer electron temperatures, densities, and elemental abundances in contexts ranging from the solar corona analyzed with SOHO to stellar coronae observed by Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. The database supports modeling undertaken by teams associated with the European Southern Observatory, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics for supernova remnant plasmas observed with the Very Large Array and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Space weather groups at NOAA and researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory use CHIANTI-derived radiative losses in magnetohydrodynamic simulations run on systems at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the NERSC.
Validation efforts draw on benchmark comparisons performed by consortia involving the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society, and national laboratories such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Uncertainties stem from theoretical approximations by groups at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and experimental limits at facilities like the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Limitations include incomplete data for highly charged ions relevant to investigations by the Hitomi team and challenges in low-temperature recombination rates noted by researchers at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. Users from institutions like Caltech and Princeton University account for these uncertainties in spectral inversion frameworks developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics.
CHIANTI originated from collaborations initiated at the University of Cambridge and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the late 1990s with contributions from scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Subsequent development involved partnerships with groups at the University of Oxford, University College London, Stanford University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. The project evolved alongside missions such as SOHO, Hinode, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Solar Dynamics Observatory, integrating datasets and software maintained by teams at the Space Telescope Science Institute, European Space Agency, and national observatories. Continuous updates have been coordinated with researchers at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, NASA Ames Research Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Category:Astrophysics databases