Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Stellar magnitudes and stellar colors
- 2 Stellar spectra
- 3 Temperature estimates for stars
- 4 Basics about radiative transfer
- 5 Radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres
- 6 The depth dependence of the source function
- 7 The continuous absorption coefficient
- 8 The influence of the non-greyness of the absorption coefficient
- 9 The pressure stratification
- 10 Theory of line formation
- 11 The hydrogen lines
- 12 Spectrum analysis
- 13 Basics about non-local thermodynamic equilibrium
- 14 The hydrogen convection zone
- 15 Stellar chromospheres, transition layers, and coronae
- 16 Stellar winds
- Problems
- Appendix LTE model stellar atmospheres
- References
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Stellar magnitudes and stellar colors
- 2 Stellar spectra
- 3 Temperature estimates for stars
- 4 Basics about radiative transfer
- 5 Radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres
- 6 The depth dependence of the source function
- 7 The continuous absorption coefficient
- 8 The influence of the non-greyness of the absorption coefficient
- 9 The pressure stratification
- 10 Theory of line formation
- 11 The hydrogen lines
- 12 Spectrum analysis
- 13 Basics about non-local thermodynamic equilibrium
- 14 The hydrogen convection zone
- 15 Stellar chromospheres, transition layers, and coronae
- 16 Stellar winds
- Problems
- Appendix LTE model stellar atmospheres
- References
- Index
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- Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics , pp. 231 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989