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most citedAccelerated Recombination due to Resonant Deexcitation of Metastable States

173 citations · 175 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2026

Iron He-triplet signatures of shocks in the hottest galaxy clusters. Z/W line ratio, line broadening, and electron-ion temperature equilibration

Eugene Churazov, Yuri Ralchenko, Ildar I. Khabibullin +5

A merger of clusters naturally drives shocks with Mach number in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). This process creates several distinct signatures, including…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 1 cited

Puzzling Isotonic Odd-Even Staggering of Charge Radii in Deformed Rare Earth Nuclei

Endre Takacs, Hunter Staiger, Steven A. Blundell +16

The nuclear charge radius is a fundamental observable that encodes key aspects of nuclear structure, deformation, and pairing. Isotonic (constant neutron number) systematics in the…

physics.atom-ph2025

Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Lu and Yb Ions for Nuclear Charge Radius Determination

Hunter Staiger, Endre Takacs, Steven A. Blundell +16

We report a high-precision determination of the natural-abundance-averaged nuclear charge-radius difference between Yb and Lu using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectroscopy of highly…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 1 cited

Benford's law in atomic spectra and opacity databases

Jean-Christophe Pain, Yuri Ralchenko

The intriguing law of anomalous numbers, also named Benford's law, states that the significant digits of data follow a logarithmic distribution favoring the smallest values. In thi…

physics.plasm-ph2001★ 173 cited

Accelerated Recombination due to Resonant Deexcitation of Metastable States

Yu. V. Ralchenko, Y. Maron

In a recombining plasma the metastable states are known to accumulate population thereby slowing down the recombination process. We show that an account of the doubly-excited autoi…