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Accuracy of Element Abundances from Stellar Atmospheres

Proceedings of Two Sessions Allocated at the IAU General Assembly in Baltimore, USA, August 1988

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Rainer Wehrse
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 356)

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • Rainer Wehrse
    Pages 1-6

  3. On the accuracy of atomic transition probabilities

    • W. L. Wiese, J. R. Fuhr
    Pages 7-18

  4. Accuracy of excitation and ionisation cross sections

    • K. Butler
    Pages 19-30

  5. Accuracy of line broadening data

    • Milan S. Dimitrijević
    Pages 31-44

  6. Accuracy of abundances from O to mid B main sequence stars

    • Roberto H. Mendez
    Pages 45-55

  7. The accuracy of abundances from middle B to F main sequence normal stars

    • Kozo Sadakane
    Pages 57-67

  8. Accuracy of the determination of the abundances in solar type stars

    • F. Spite
    Pages 69-84

  9. Problems associated with cool dwarf stars

    • M. S. Bessell1, M. Scholz
    Pages 85-90

  10. Accuracy of abundances from stars in near-by galaxies

    • B. Baschek
    Pages 91-109
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To get a reasonably realistic picture of the structure and evolution of stars one needs to know accurately the abundances of chemical elements and their isotopes in the stellar atmosphere and in the galactic environment of the stars. The articles collected in this volume give a modern review of the abundance accuracies for main-sequence stars. After a general introduction in the first part the accuracies of atomic transition probabilities, ionization and excitation cross-sections, and line broad- ening data are discussed. In the second part the specific problems and results for different stellar types are presented, and, finally, an overview on the possibilities of abundance determinations for stars outside the Galaxy is given.

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