Functionality

Other than provide access to the CHIANTI database, what should this package do? This is separate from a discussion about what the structure of the package should be though the ChiantiPy package provides a nice model.

Look at the functionality in both the ChiantiPy and CHIANTI IDL libraries

• Line emission--implemented at the Ion object level, mostly as methods

  • level population
  • Contribution function: the definition of this term needs to be formalized!
  • intensity and spectrum

• Ionization equilibrium--implemented at Element object level

  • Wrapper around many ion objects similar to ChiantiPy?
  • Interpolation for any dataset
  • Arbitrary temperatures (not just interpolation)
  • Non-equilibrium ionization ???? (collaboration with Murphy et al.)

• Continuum (still need a parser for this data...)--implemented at Ion level though could be incorporated Element and IonCollection level as well

  • free-free
  • free-bound
  • two-photon

• Multi-ion functionality (+ continuum)--IonCollection level

  • spectrum
  • radiative losses
  • ionization equilibrium