Recent Directions in Astrophysical Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Hydrodynamics: Proceedings of Teh International Conference in Honor of Dimitri Mihalas for His Lifetime Scientific Contributions on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

by Hubeny, Ivan; Stone, James M.; Macgregor, Keith; Werner, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780735407107
• ISBN10: 073540710X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

The meeting was organized to honor Dimitri Mihalas for his lifetime contributions to the fields of astrophysical quantitative spectroscopy and radiation hydrodynamics on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The meeting covered recent developments and future prospects in general radiative transfer theory, modeling stellar atmospheres, theory and modeling of stellar winds, and basic theory and applications of the astrophysical radiation hydrodynamics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
A Message	p. ix
Radiative Transfer and Model Atmospheres
From Complete Linearization to ALI and Beyond	p. 3
Quantitative Spectral Analysis of Evolved Low-Mass Stars	p. 15
The Second Stellar Spectrum and the Non-LTE Problem of the 2nd Kind	p. 27
Including All the Lines	p. 43
Accuracy of Stellar Opacities and the Solar Abundance Problem	p. 52
Particle Diffusion, Flows, and NLTE Calculations	p. 61
Quantitative Spectroscopy in 3D	p. 73
NLTE Model Atmospheres for Super-Soft X-ray Sources	p. 85
1D and 3D Radiative Transfer in Circumstellar Disks	p. 93
Hydrogen Lines in DA White Dwarfs: Improved Stark Broadening	p. 101
Stellar Winds
Radiation Driven Stellar Winds	p. 111
Mass Loss from OB-Stars	p. 123
Spectroscopy and Hydrodynamics of Dense Stellar Winds	p. 136
3D Radiative Transfer with PHOENIX	p. 148
Multi-dimensional Radiation Transport in Rapidly Expanding Envelopes	p. 161
Radiation Hydrodynamics of Line-driven Winds	p. 173
The Zeeman Effect in Hot-Star Winds with a Split Monopole Magnetic Field	p. 187
Time-dependent Non-LTE Radiative Transfer of Supernova Ejecta	p. 199
3D Non-LTE Time-dependent Spectrum Synthesis for Type Ia Supernovae	p. 207
Radiation Hydrodynamics
Radiation Hydrodynamics with Dimitri, ZEUS, and Athena	p. 217
Toward a Fully Consistent Radiation Hydrodynamics	p. 230
Accurate Radiation Hydrodynamics and MHD Modeling of 3-D Stellar Atmospheres	p. 242
Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics with Enzo	p. 260
Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Simulations: The Path to and Necessity for 3D Models	p. 273
Self-consistent Thermodynamics in Accretion: Radiation-dominated Disks Are Thermally Stable	p. 284
Radiation-driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei	p. 295
The Formation of Narrow X-ray Line Spectra from Realistic Hydrodynamical Models: Applications to the Problem of Warm Absorbers	p. 304
Photon Scattering in 3D Radiative MHD Simulations	p. 309
Radiative MHD Simulations of Sunspot Structure-Challenges and Recent Developments	p. 315
Teff and Log g Dependence of Velocity Fields in M-Stars	p. 323
RMHS Modeling of Solar Prominences	p. 331
Poster Session
Spectral Modeling of Accretion Disks around Compact Stars	p. 341
Neutron Star Model Atmospheres	p. 343
Quantitative Analysis of the Spectra of Early B Stars with Ultrasharp Lines	p. 345
The Impact of Stellar UV Spectroscopy on Stellar Population Studies	p. 347
Hydrogenic Line Widths Produced by Energy Fluctuations in Stellar Atmospheres	p. 349
Surface Velocity Fields from Tidal Interactions	p. 353
Calculation of the Solar UV/EUV Spectrum in Spherical Symmetry	p. 355
Static Spherically Symmetric NLTE Model Atmospheres Near the Eddington Limit	p. 357
Radiative Transfer in Axial Symmetry	p. 359
Formation of Helium Lines in Solar Prominences	p. 361
Comptonized Fe K-lines in the X-ray Spectra of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries	p. 363
Group Photo	p. 365
Author Index	p. 367
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