Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1304.4111 (Julien Lambert et al.)

NLTE water lines in Betelgeuse-like atmospheres    [PDF]

Julien Lambert, Eric Josselin, Nils Ryde, Alexandre Faure
The interpretation of water lines in red supergiant stellar atmospheres has been much debated over the past decade. The introduction of the so-called MOLspheres to account for near-infrared "extra" absorption has been controversial. We propose that non-LTE effects should be taken into account before considering any extra-photospheric contribution. After a brief introduction on the radiative transfer treatment and the inadequacy of classical treatments in the case of large-scale systems such as molecules, we present a new code, based on preconditioned Krylov subspace methods. Preliminary results suggest that NLTE effects lead to deeper water bands, as well as extra cooling.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4111

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