Beyond the Coronal Regime (cont.)
Density Diagnostics
v Collisional depletion of the
upper levels of forbidden
lines
v Most popular are the He-
like triplets (Gabriel & Jordan
1969).  The 1s-2s forbidden
line is suppressed at high
densities.
v Critical density increases
with Z.
Ness, Mewe, Schmitt et al. 2001
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