Modeling of continuous absorption of electromagnetic radiation in dense partially ionized plasmas

Abstract

A new modeling way of describing the continuous absorption of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in dense partially ionized hydrogen plasma is tested in this work. It is shown that the obtained results give a possibility of calculating spectral absorption coefficients which characterize the relevant absorption processes in partially ionized hydrogen plasmas with electron densities $N_{e} \sim 10^{19}cm^{-3}$ and temperatures $T \approx 2\cdot 10^{4}K$. A key parameter of the used procedure is determined empirically. The calculation method is applied to wavelength region $300nm < \lambda < 500nm$. The presented results can be of interest for dense laboratory plasmas as well as for partially ionized layers of different stellar atmospheres.