Green's functions for polarized radiative transfer equation in different geometries
Abstract
A review of some earlier exact analytic solutions of monochromatic stationary vector radiative transfer equation in homogeneous infinite medium is given. It is stressed that Green's functions for plane-parallel, spherical and cylindrical symmetry are expressed through derivatives and integrals from basically one and the same set of functions.
- Publication:
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Planetary Nebulae: An Eye to the Future
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312011416
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..283..358F
- Keywords:
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- Polarization;
- radiative transfer;
- methods: analytical