Ultraviolet Stellar Spectra and Related Ground-Based Observations

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Houziaux, K. (Editor), Butler, H.E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1970, 1970
Edition:1st ed. 1970
Series:International Astronomical Union Symposia
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Observations of ultraviolet stellar spectra
  • 2. Photoelectric rocket spectra at 10 Å resolution (Abstract)
  • 3. Rocket spectroscopy of ? Puppis below 1100 Å
  • 4. Observations of strong stellar lines with the OAO
  • 5. The far-ultraviolet spectrum of ? Cassiopeiae
  • 6. UV spectrophotometry of Canopus from Gemini XI
  • B. Ground-Based Observations of Spectra Relevant to the Ultraviolet
  • 1. Review of ground-based observations of spectra relevant to the ultraviolet
  • 2. Chromospheric activity in red giants, and related phenomena
  • 3. Mass loss from early-type stars
  • C. Theory Relevant to UV Spectra
  • 1. A discussion of the theory for interpreting ultraviolet stellar spectra
  • 2. Possibility of fluorescence phenomena in the ultraviolet spectrum of symbiotic stars and long period variables
  • 3. Radiative acceleration and ultraviolet resonance line profiles in OB supergiants
  • 4. Stellar-wind theory for O and B stars (Abstract)
  • D. The Sun — a Typical G2V Star
  • D. Observed Stellar Fluxes
  • 1. Review of ultraviolet and visual continuum observations and comparisons with models
  • 2. The stellar temperature scale from 05 to A0
  • 3. On ultraviolet fluxes, bolometric corrections and effective temperatures of late B to F stars
  • 4. Far-ultraviolet intensities of Orion stars
  • 5. Ultraviolet photometry of stars obtained with the Celescope experiment in the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
  • 6. Photographic magnitudes of 201 stars at 2600 Å
  • 7. Spectrophotometrie integree des galaxies proches dans l’ultraviolet (expérience Persée)
  • 8. Low resolution stellar spectrophotometrie observations in the region 1500 Å–3000 Å
  • 9. Absolute stellar photometry in the region 1200 Å–3000 Å
  • 10. Preliminary note on the astronomical satellite Kosmos 215
  • 11. Ultravioletphotometry of stars from OSO II
  • 12. The ultraviolet solar opacity
  • II / Stellar Line Spectra
  • A. Rocket and Satellite Observations of Ultraviolet Spectra
  • 4. Lyman-? radiation from nebular objects
  • Space and ground-based stellar spectrophotometry: a summary
  • 1. Review of astrophysical conclusions from the UV solar spectra
  • 2. Resonance lines in the solar chromosphere
  • 3. On the contribution of solar activity to the ultraviolet spectrum of the Sun
  • 4. Intensity distribution in the Lyman-? line at the solar limb
  • 5. A high-resolution solar spectrum 2000 Å–2200 Å
  • 6. Fabry-Pérot interferograms of the solar MgII resonance lines
  • III / Interstellar Absorption and Emission
  • A. Absorption Lines
  • 1. Observations of interstellar Lyman-? absorption
  • 2. Observations of interstellar Lyman-? with the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
  • 3. Interstellar lines other than hydrogen
  • 4. Interstellarmolecular hydrogen (Abstract)
  • 5. General discussion
  • B. Emission
  • 1. The night sky brightness measured from satellites Kosmos 51 and 213
  • 2. Mariner 5 measurements of ultraviolet emission from the Galaxy
  • 3. The ultraviolet background (intergalactic gas, the Galaxy, and subcosmic rays)
  • I / Stellar Fluxes
  • A. Absolute Calibration
  • 1. Absolute intensity calibration methods in the vacuum UV region
  • 2. An investigation of the properties of vacuum-ultraviolet radiation detectors (Abstract)
  • 3. Recent absolute calibration work at Palomar Mountain
  • 4. General discussion (On calibration methods)
  • B. Interstellar Extinction
  • 1. Interstellar extinction (Introductory lecture)
  • 2. Ultraviolet interstellar extinction from a comparison of ? Persei and ? Pesei
  • 3. Observations of interstellar extinction in the ultraviolet with the OAO satellite
  • 4. On dielectric models of interstellar grains
  • 5. Extinction curves for graphite-silicate grain mixtures
  • 6. Measurement of interstellar extinction in emission line stars
  • 7. The interstellar extinction curve from 4000 Å to 6500 Å
  • C. Theoretical Models for Stellar Fluxes
  • 1. The effective temperatures of the O stars
  • 2. The effect of Silicon and Carbon opacity on ultraviolet stellar spectra