MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Science Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Stellar
atmospheres
Synopsis Review of the observed properties of stars. Static stellar
structure, radiative transport, the radiation field, opacity and emissivity,
equation of radiative transfer, black body radiation, radiative equilibrium,
true absorption and scattering. Radiation in the solar atmosphere, limb
darkening, non-radiative energy transfer, Boltzmann and Saha equations,
transition probabilities and line opacities, line broadening mechanisms,
continuous opacity, simplified model of stellar atmospheres, line intensities
in stellar spectra, curves of growth for stellar spectral lines.
Prescribed text
- Bohm-Vitasse E Introduction to stellar astrophysics Cambridge volume
1-2, 1989
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