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Parameter identification – a new way of assessing errors in stellar atmosphere analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R. Wehrse
Affiliation:
Institut f. Theoretische Astrophysik, Tiergartenstraße 15, D 69121 Heidelberg
Ph. Rosenau
Affiliation:
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum f. Wissenschaftl. Rechnen, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D 69120 Heidelberg

Abstract

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For the consistent and objective determination of stellar parameters and corresponding errors a constrained minimization approach is described which allows to take additional non-spectroscopic information into account and assures that the atmospheric structure equations are always fulfilled.

Type
Stellar Atmospheres
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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