Synopses & Reviews
Volume 2 contains the basic physical ideas and laws used in the study of the outer layers of a star including stellar magnitudes, spectra and temperatures, radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere, line formation, the spectrum of hydrogen, spectral analysis, and available structural components.
Review
"...an excellent introduction to analytical methods and comparison with observations." Virginia Trimble, Comments on Astrophysics
Synopsis
Volume 2 contains the basic physical ideas and laws used in the study of the outer layers of a star including stellar magnitudes, spectra and temperatures, radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere, line formation, the spectrum of hydrogen, spectral analysis, and available structural components.
Synopsis
Each of the three books can be used as an independent textbook. Together they give a complete introductory account of our present knowledge of stars. The author is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Stellar magnitudes and stellar colors; 2. Stellar spectra; 3. Temperature estimates for stars; 4. Basics about radiative transfer; 5. Radiative transfer in stellar atmosphere; 6. The depth dependence of the source function; 7. The continuous absorption coefficient; 8. The influence of the non-greyness of the absorption coefficient; 9. The pressure stratification; 10. Theory of line formation; 11. The hydrogen lines; 12. Spectrum analysis; 13. Basics about non-local thermodynamics equilibrium; 14. The hydrogen convection zone; 15. Stellar chromospheres, transition layers, and coronae; 16. Stellar winds; Problems; References; Index.