Stark Broadening and White Dwarfs

Baltic astronomy

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Milan S. Dimitrijević¹  Andjelka Kovačević³  Zoran Simić¹  Sylvie Sahal-Bréchot² 

[1] Astronomical Observatory;Observatoire de Paris, LERMA;Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade

关键词: stars;    white dwarfs;    Stark broadening;    line profiles;    databases;   

DOI  :  10.1515/astro-2017-0327

来源: Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy

【 摘 要 】

White dwarf and pre-white dwarfs are the best types of stars for the application of Stark broadening research results in astrophysics, since in the atmospheres of these stars physical conditions are very favorable for this line broadening mechanism - in hot hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs T eff = 75 000–180 000 K and log g = 5.5–8 [cgs]. Even for much cooler DA and DB white dwarfs with the typical effective temperatures 10 000-20 000 K, Stark broadening is usually the dominant broadening mechanism. In this review, Stark broadening in white dwarf spectra is considered, and the attention is drawn to the STARK-B database (http://stark-b.obspm.fr/), containing the parameters needed for analysis and synthesis of white dwarf spectra, as well as for the collective efforts to develop the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center.

【 授权许可】

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