Stellar Atmospheres
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| author | Puls, Joachim Herrero, Artemio Prieto, Carlos Allende |
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| contents | Stars play a decisive role in our Universe, from its beginning throughout its complete evolution. For a thorough understanding of their properties, evolution, and physics of their outer envelopes, stellar spectra need to be analyzed by comparison with numerical models of their atmospheres. We discuss the foundations of how to calculate such models (in particular, density and temperature stratification, affected by convective energy transport in low-mass stars), which requires a parallel treatment of hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and radiative transfer. We stress the impact of emissivities, opacities, and particularly their ratio (source function), and summarize how these quantities are calculated, either adopting or relaxing the assumption of LTE (local thermodynamic equilibrium). Subsequently, we discuss the influence and physics of stellar winds (and their various driving mechanisms as a function of stellar type), rotation, magnetic fields, inhomogeneities, and multiplicity. Finally, we outline the basics of quantitative spectroscopy, namely how to analyze observed spectra in practice. |
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| spellingShingle | Stellar Atmospheres Puls, Joachim Herrero, Artemio Prieto, Carlos Allende Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Stars play a decisive role in our Universe, from its beginning throughout its complete evolution. For a thorough understanding of their properties, evolution, and physics of their outer envelopes, stellar spectra need to be analyzed by comparison with numerical models of their atmospheres. We discuss the foundations of how to calculate such models (in particular, density and temperature stratification, affected by convective energy transport in low-mass stars), which requires a parallel treatment of hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and radiative transfer. We stress the impact of emissivities, opacities, and particularly their ratio (source function), and summarize how these quantities are calculated, either adopting or relaxing the assumption of LTE (local thermodynamic equilibrium). Subsequently, we discuss the influence and physics of stellar winds (and their various driving mechanisms as a function of stellar type), rotation, magnetic fields, inhomogeneities, and multiplicity. Finally, we outline the basics of quantitative spectroscopy, namely how to analyze observed spectra in practice. |
| title | Stellar Atmospheres |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03329 |