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The 23.01 release of Cloudy

arXiv:2311.10163

Abstract

We announce the C23.01 update of Cloudy. This corrects a simple coding error, present since 1990, in one routine that required a conversion from the line-center to the mean normalization of the Ly optical depth. This affects the destruction of H I Ly by background opacities. Its largest effect is upon the Ly intensity in high-ionization dusty clouds, where the predicted intensity is now up to three times stronger. Other properties that depend on Ly destruction, such as grain infrared emission, change in response.

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