The MAPPINGS III Library of Fast Radiative Shock Models

We present a new library of fully radiative shock models calculated with the MAPPINGS III shock and photoionization code. The library consists of grids of models with shock velocities in the range vs = 100-1000 km s-1 and magnetic parameters B/n1/2 of 10-4 to 10 μG cm3/2 for five different atomic abundance sets and for a preshock density of 1.0 cm-3. In addition, solar abundance model grids have been calculated for densities of 0.01,0.1, 10, 100, and 1000 cm-3 with the same range in vs and B/n1/2. Each model includes components of both the radiative shock and its photoionized precursor, ionized by the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray radiation generated in the radiative gas. We present the details of…