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Fifty Years of Research on Stellar Atmospheres*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Dimitri Mihalas
Dimitri Mihalas*
Affiliation:
Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

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I would like to begin by saying what a pleasure it is for me to be here. For my entire adult life I have wanted to come to Australia. Actually, I have been invited to visit here twice before, but each time I was thwarted by circumstances beyond my control. But this time I was determined to (a) prove that the third time is indeed the charm, and (b) pay homage to Walter Stibbs, who in my mind is the epitome of a scholar and a gentleman. I have known Walter as colleague, teacher, and friend, not to mention as an inspiration, both professional and personal. So I am here today to try to give some sense of progress in the study of stellar atmospheres, a field that Walter has graced with his virtuosic touch. I will follow an unabashedly personal path, describing the development as I experienced it. I will focus almost entirely on early-type stars, where we may reasonably expect the atmospheric layers to be homogeneous, and in radiative equilibrium. Only at the end will I mention our nearest stellar neighbor, the Sun, which, because we can study it in so much detail, offers counterexamples to almost all of the the theory that works so well for early-type stars. I offer apologies in advance to anyone this approach may offend.

Keywords

history & philosophy of astronomy
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 2001 , pp. 311 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2001

Footnotes

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Paper given at ‘Some Highlights in Astronomy & Astrophysics’, a symposium in honor of Walter Stibbs's 80th Birthday, held in Canberra, Australia, September 30–October 1, 1999.

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