OH and CH Continuous Opacity in Solar and Stellar Atmospheres
Abstract
Continuous absorption cross sections of OH and CH have been computed for the temperature range 1000K to 9000K. Both OH and CH produce significant ultraviolet opacity in the Sun and cool stars. CH is also significant in the visible at 400 nm.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1086/165794
- Bibcode:
- 1987ApJ...322..992K
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Optics;
- Opacity;
- Solar Atmosphere;
- Stellar Atmospheres;
- Absorption Cross Sections;
- Hydroxyl Radicals;
- Molecular Spectra;
- Spectral Energy Distribution;
- Visible Spectrum;
- Astrophysics;
- MOLECULAR PROCESSES;
- OPACITIES;
- STARS: ATMOSPHERES