rwesson/NEAT — Issue #11: Calculate density from high-order Balmer lines
Author: rwesson
Created: 2012-01-14 22:53:15+00:00
State: open

The relative intensities of high order Balmer lines are sensitive to density. These lines have an extremely high critical density so they will reveal the presence of high density material from which CEL emission is quenched. At the moment, these lines are ignored by NEAT but we could add routines to calculate the density from the ratio of each line to Hb, then calculate a flux-weighted average.