This is a coherent and updated comprehensive treatise on the field of atomic physics in hot plasmas, which can be used both for tutorial and professional purposes, and which summarizes the central subjects in the field today.
1. Modeling of the ionic potential ; 2. Ionic properties in hot plasmas ; 3. Ionic properties and processes in hot plasmas ; 4. The charge and excited state distributions in hot plasmas ; 5. The emission spectrum and its components ; 6. Spectral line broadening ; 7. The emission spectrum as a means of plasma diagnostics ; 8. Radiation absorbing processes and radiation transport ; 9. Applications
