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Atomic data and uncertainties with PyAtomDB
Author(s) -
Foster Adam R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.202023777
Subject(s) - python (programming language) , computer science , database , focus (optics) , data science , physics , programming language , optics
The Atomic Database project (AtomDB) atomic database provides access to a curated collection of atomic data, along with tools that convert this data into emissivities used in many analysis tools. We present the outline of some of the tools now available for accessing AtomDB using the new Python interface, developed to handle the larger datasets that exist since the release of version 3 in 2016. We also show how these routines have allowed basic handling of uncertainties, which will become an increasing focus of research in the future.