Photoionized astrophysical plasmas in the laboratory

The time-dependent collisional-radiative code ALICE [E. G. Hill and S. J. Rose, High Energy Density Phys. 5, 302 (2009)] is used to model the spectrum from a laboratory photoionized silicon plasma [S. Fujioka et al., Nat. Phys. 5, 821 (2009)]. The results show a good agreement with the laboratory spectrum and lend support to the accompanying analytical discussion of photoionized laboratory spectra, their parametrization, and relevance to astrophysics.