This feature is needed for the CASPER code, which is part of ITER IMAS, so I'll start working on it.

Since the ADAS thermal CX PECs are functions of Ne and Te only, it is likely that they are calculated on the assumption that both donor and receiver have a Maxwellian distribution with T = Te. This is an oversimplification, but I think we should stick with it for now.

Here is a breakdown based on information from the ITER Synthetic Diagnostics meeting where this feature was discussed:

• ThermalCXPEC must be implemented as a function of 3 variables: electron density, electron temperature and donor temperature. The ADAS PEC data for this is on the way. When validated, the data is likely to be available in the OpenADAS.
• The atomic repository structure for CX PECs should follow that of thermal_cx: pec/thermalcx/{donor_element}/{donor_charge}/{receiver_element}/{receiver_charge}.json. Each json file contain PECs for different spectral lines.
• ThermalCXLine for a given receiver and spectral line sums over all possible donors when evaluates the radiance.
• All thermal broadened spectral line shapes valid for ExcitationLine and RecombinationLine are valid for ThermalCXLine as well.