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Treatment of atomic and molecular line blanketing by opacity sampling

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7342667
An opacity sampling (OS) technique for treating the radiative opacity of large numbers of atomic and molecular lines in cool stellar atmospheres is presented. Tests were conducted and results show that the structure of atmospheric models is accurately fixed by the use of 1000 frequency points, and 500 frequency points is often adequate. The effects of atomic and molecular lines are separately studied. A test model computed by using the OS method agrees very well with a model having identical atmospheric parameters computed by the giant line (opacity distribution function) method. (auth)
Research Organization:
Indiana Univ., Bloomington (USA). Dept. of Astronomy
OSTI ID:
7342667
Report Number(s):
N-75-27978; NASA-CR-143097
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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