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3. The Chemical Composition of Stellar Atmospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

A. Unsöld*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Kiel, Germany

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The quantitative analysis of stellar atmospheres requires—if we may put it somewhat paradoxically—already considerable knowledge of their composition and structure. In practice it is therefore necessary to begin with the simplest problems and even there to proceed in successive approximations.

Type
Part IV. Symposia
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

References

page no 482 note * Hoyle, F. and Lyttleton, R. A., Mon. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 102, 177, 1942 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.