CHIANTI
An Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas.
George Mason University (USA) -
University of Michigan (USA) -
University of Cambridge (UK)
CHIANTI is an ongoing collaboration involving the George Mason University, the University of Michigan (USA) ane theUniversity of Cambridge
(UK). This collaboration is made possible only with the help of both individual
scientists outside the CHIANTI consortium, and funding agencies in the United States and Europe.
We acknowledge financial support via the following grants:
- NASA - Ultraviolet, Visible and Gravitational Astrophysics grant (USA)
- NASA - Applied Information Systems Research Program grant (USA)
- NASA - Living With a Star grant (USA)
- NASA - Solar and Heliospheric Physics CHIANTI grant (USA)
- Chandra Emission Line Project (USA)
- NATO grant
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, Italy)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita' e della Ricerca (MIUR, Italy)
- Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC, UK)
We are grateful to the individual scientists who made available to us the electronic files
of their calculations. These include:
- C. Ballance (Rollins College)
- K.A. Berrington (Sheffield Univ.)
- A.K. Bhatia (GSFC)
- J. Dubau (Univ. Paris)
- M.F. Gu (Stanford)
- T. Kato (TU)
- J. Pelan, C.A. Ramsbottom, K. Bell (QUB)
- U.I. Safronova (IS/RAS)
- D.H. Sampson (PSU)
- P.J. Storey (UCL)
- S.S. Tayal (CAU)
- K.G. Widing (NRL)
- W.L. Wiese, W.C. Martin, A. Musgrove and T. Shirai (NIST)
- M.C. Witthoeft (CUA/GSFC)
- H.L. Zhang and A.K. Pradhan (OSU)