Transfer of Radiation in Circumstellar Dust Envelopes. I. Extreme Cases
Abstract
Transfer of radiation in circumstellar dust clouds has been treated for two simplified cases: (1) the thin cloud and (2) the completely opaque cloud. The condition and the consequences of these two cases are examined. For the thin cloud the problem is reducible to a single integral equation that links the emergent infrared spectrum with the dust distribution around the star, and for the completely opaque cloud the problem resembles that of extended stellar atmospheres
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- August 1969
- DOI:
- 10.1086/150116
- Bibcode:
- 1969ApJ...157..835H