ASTA31
Stjärnatmosfärer (7,5 hp)
Stellar Atmospheres
LITERATURE TO BE READ
Judith Lean:
THE SUN’S VARIABLE RADIATION AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR
EARTH,
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
volume 35,
pages 33–67 (1997)
Jeffrey C. Hall:
STELLAR CHROMOSPHERIC ACTIVITY,
Living Reviews in Solar Physics,
volume 5,
2 (2008), 56 pages
H.C.Spruit, Å.Nordlund,
A.M.Title:
SOLAR
CONVECTION,
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
volume 28,
pages 263–301 (1990)
Martin Asplund:
NEW LIGHT ON STELLAR ABUNDANCE ANALYSIS,
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
volume 43,
pages 481–530 (2005)
Timothy R. Bedding,
Hans Kjeldsen:
SOLAR-LIKE
OSCILLATIONS,
Publ.Astron.Soc.Australia, volume
20,
203-212 (2003)
Markus J. Aschwanden,
Arthur L. Poland,
Douglas M.Rabin:
THE NEW SOLAR
CORONA,
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
volume 39,
pages 175–210 (2001)
Manuel Güdel:
STELLAR RADIO ASTRONOMY: Probing Stellar Atmospheres from Protostars to Giants,
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
volume 40,
pages 217–261 (2002)
The course literature also includes
the lecture handouts
REFERENCE BOOK
David F. Gray:
The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres, 3rd
ed.
Cambridge University Press (2008)
ISBN-13: 9780521066815
CONTENTS
1. Background
2. Fourier transforms
3. Spectroscopic tools
4. Light detectors
5. Radiation terms and definitions
6. The black body and its
radiation
7. Radiative and convective energy
transport
8. The continuous absorption
coefficient
9. The model photosphere
10. The measurement of stellar
continua
11. The line absorption
coefficient
12. The measurement of spectral
lines
13. The behavior of spectral lines
14. The measurement of stellar
radii and temperatures
15. The measurement of
photospheric pressure
16. Chemical analysis
17. Velocity fields in stellar
photospheres
18. Stellar rotation
Bookstore price in
softcover: around SEK 500:-;
a previous hardcover editon from 2006 also exists
A listing of typos and errata is on:
http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~dfgray/Photo3-err.htm
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