Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres

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May 2003

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Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres, by Robert J. Rutten. Lecture Notes Utrecht University, 255 pages, 2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stellar Atmospheres, Radiative Transfer, Spectral Line Formation

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The main topic treated in these graduate course notes is the classical theory of radiative transfer for explaining stellar spectra. It needs relatively much attention to be mastered. Radiative transfer in gaseous media that are neither optically thin nor fully opaque and scatter to boot is a key part of astrophysics but not a transparent subject. These course notes represent a middle road between Mihalas' "Stellar Atmospheres" (graduate level and up) and the books by Novotny and Boehm-Vitense (undergraduate level). They are at about the level of Gray's "The observation and analysis of stellar photospheres" but emphasize NLTE radiative transfer rather than observational techniques and data interpretation.

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