Inelastic Processes in Strontium-Hydrogen Collisions and Their Impact on Non-LTE Calculations

Abstract

Inelastic processes rate coefficients for low-energy Sr + H, Sr+ + H−, Sr+ + H, and Sr2+ + H− collisions are calculated using the multichannel quantum model approach. A total of 31 scattering channels of SrH+ and 17 scattering channels of SrH are considered. The partial cross sections and the partial rate coefficients are hence calculated for 1202 partial processes in total. Using new quantum data for Sr ii + H i collisions, we updated the model atom of Sr ii and performed the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) calculations. We provide the non-LTE abundance corrections for the Sr ii resonance lines in two grids of model atmospheres, which are applicable to very metal-poor ([Fe/H] ≤−2) dwarfs and giants.

Keywords

• atomic collisional data
• atomic inelastic processes
• rate coefficients
• stars: atmospheres