Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Feb 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978apj...219..963k&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 219, Feb. 1, 1978, p. 963-969.
Physics
Optics
21
Atmospheric Optics, Cool Stars, Late Stars, Opacity, Stellar Atmospheres, Titanium Oxides, Atmospheric Heating, Atmospheric Models, Carbon Monoxide, Spectral Bands, Water Vapor
Scientific paper
A quantitative investigation is conducted concerning the effect of TiO opacities on the atmospheric temperature structure in late-type stars. Model atmospheres are computed, taking into account opacity-sampling (OS) or straight-mean (SM) opacities for three singlet and three triplet band systems of TiO. Model atmospheres using OS and SM opacities for TiO are compared with models having no TiO, giving attention to the effects of TiO opacities on the temperature structures of various atmospheres and the usefulness of straight-mean TiO opacities in model atmosphere calculations. The results of the model-atmosphere calculations are presented in two graphs. TiO opacities produce a global atmospheric heating which may reach several hundred kelvins. It is shown quantitatively that the TiO molecule is an important source of atmospheric opacity in cool stars of solar composition. The relative importance of TiO opacities to the thermal structure of a stellar atmosphere is influenced in the outer layers by CO and H2O cooling effects and in the deeper layers by CO, CN, and metal line absorption.
Collins J. G.
Johnson Hollis R.
Krupp Brian M.
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