Atomic Level-Population Context

ID: physics.atomic.level_population_context

Represents how ground and excited electronic levels are populated under declared thermal, collisional, pumping, and radiative conditions.

Status: canonical_reference

Uncertainty

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Sources

• Rybicki-Lightman-Radiative-Processes-in-Astrophysics

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