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New release of Vienna Atomic Line Database (VALD3) and its integration in Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC)

T. A. Ryabchikova^a, Yu. V. Pakhomov^a, N. E. Piskunov<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Uppsala University, Sweden

Abstract: We give a short description of the third version of the Vienna Atomic Line Database (VALD), one of the main spectroscopic bases widely used in different astrophysical applications such as model atmosphere calculations and abundance analysis. The changes in VALD3 concern record formats and data presentation using IAEA standards as well as the significantly enhanced number of atomic lines and molecular lines of $\mathrm{TiO}$, $\mathrm{CN}$, $\mathrm{CH}$, $\mathrm O_2$, $\mathrm{FeH}$. It is worth to mention that VALD2 does not contain molecular lines. VALD3 is one out of 18 spectroscopic data bases joining the international project on the creation of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC), which is supported and financed by the European Community.

Keywords: spectroscopy, atomic parameters, atomic and molecular line databases.

UDC: 539.184

Received: 14.02.2011