Collision-induced absorption in dense atmospheres of cool stars

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Apr 1999

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The 14th international conference on spectral line shapes. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 467, pp. 207-227 (1999).

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Stellar Atmospheres, Radiative Transfer, Opacity And Line Formation

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In the atmosphere of the Sun the major interaction between the matter and the radiation is through light absorption by ions (predominantly the negative ion of hydrogen atoms), neutral atoms and a small amount of polar molecules. The majority of stars in the universe are, however, cooler and denser than our Sun, and for a large fraction of these, the above absorption processes are very weak. Here, collision-induced absorption (CIA) becomes the dominant opacity source. The radiation is absorbed during very short mutual passages (``collisions'') of two non-polar molecules (and/or atoms), while their electric charge distributions are temporarily distorted which gives rise to a transient dipole moment. We present here a review of the present-day knowledge about the impact of collision-induced absorption processes on the structure and the spectrum of such stars.

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