ELECTRON-IMPACT EXCITATION OF CA+

We use a non-exchange distorted wave approximation to compute collisio n strengths for electron excitation of Ca+. The lowest 7 ionic terms a re included in our model of the target. A spline fitting procedure inc orporating the Born high energy limiting values enables us to interpol ate collision strengths at large impact energies. Thermal averaging is performed analytically after linearly interpolating the data points. The resulting effective collision strengths for 21 transitions in Caare presented in compact form by using the program OME-UPS to spline f it the data.