The Continuous Radiative Absorption Cross Section of FeXIV and the Coronal Temperature

Abstract

The continuous radiative absorption cross section of FeXIV was calculated, using a Hartree wave function to evaluate the matrix element for recombination to the ground state. This matrix element was considerably smaller than the value obtained by Hill (1950, 1951) using the hydrogen-like approximation, but the total cross section for recombination was not greatly different.