Stellar Atmosphers Theory: an Introduction
Abstract
Fundamentals Concepts What Is a Stellar Atmosphere, and Why Do We Study It? Basic Structural Equations LTE Versus Non-LTE Radiative Transfer Equation Intensity of Radiation and Related Quantities Absorption and Emission Coefficient Phenomenological Derivation of the Transfer Equation Optical Depth and the Source Function Elementry Solutions Moments of the Transfer Equation Lambda Operator Diffusion Approximation Radiative Transfer with Constraints; Escape Probality Two-Level Atom Escape Probability Numerical Methods Formal Solution of the Transfer Equation Linear Coupling Problems Accelerated Lambda Iteration Non-linear Coupling Problems Model Atmospheres Definition and Terminology Basic Equations of Classical Stellar Atmospheres LTE-Grey Model: A Tool to Understand the Temperature Structure LTE and NLTE Model Atmospheres Line Blanketing Using Model Atmospheres to Analyse Observed Spectra A Scheme of Spectroscopic Diagnostics Spectrum Synthesis Spectrum Fitting Determination of Fundamental Stellar Parameters
- Publication:
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Stellar Atmospheres: Theory and Observations
- Pub Date:
- 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BFb0113481
- Bibcode:
- 1997LNP...497....1H