Ion-by-ion Cooling efficiencies
  We present ion-by-ion cooling efficiencies for low-density gas. We use Cloudy
(ver. 08.00) to estimate the cooling efficiencies for each ion of the first 30
elements (H-Zn) individually. We present results for gas temperatures between
1e4 and 1e8K, assuming low densities and optically thin conditions. When
nonequilibrium ionization plays a significant role the ionization states
deviate from those that obtain in collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE), and
the local cooling efficiency at any given temperature depends on specific
non-equilibrium ion fractions. The results presented here allow for an
efficient estimate of the total cooling efficiency for any ionic composition.
We also list the elemental cooling efficiencies assuming CIE conditions. These
can be used to construct CIE cooling efficiencies for non-solar abundance
ratios, or to estimate the cooling due to elements not explicitly included in
any nonequilibrium computation. All the computational results are listed in
convenient online tables.
