Understanding the evolution of theoretically-based pigments based on their UV-Vis absorption spectra and its ability of being functional in different stellar systems.

Desiderata in connection by the calibration of the MK-system

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900053699 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

pp. 348-349

Author(s):

Th. Schmidt-Kaler

Keyword(s):

Absolute Magnitude ◽

Review Article ◽

Stellar Systems ◽

Astronomical Data ◽

Intrinsic Colour

This is only an informal remark about some difficulties I am worrying about.I have tried to recalibrate the MK system in terms of intrinsic colour (B–V)0and absolute magnitudeMv. The procedures used have been described in a review article by Voigt (Mitt. Astr. Ges.1963, p. 25–35), and the results for stars of the luminosity classes Ia-O,I and II have been given also in Blaauw's article on the calibration of luminosity criteria in vol. III (Basic Astronomical Data, p. 401) ofStars and Stellar Systems.

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Symbiotic Stars at Optical, Infrared and Radio Wavelengths

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s025292110007336x ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 125-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David A. Allen

Keyword(s):

Temperature Regime ◽

Type Star ◽

Stellar Systems ◽

Symbiotic Stars ◽

Lower Excitation ◽

Definition Of ◽

Original Type

No paper of this nature should begin without a definition of symbiotic stars. It was Paul Merrill who, borrowing on his botanical background, coined the termsymbioticto describe apparently single stellar systems which combine the TiO absorption of M giants (temperature regime ≲ 3500 K) with He II emission (temperature regime ≳ 100,000 K). He and Milton Humason had in 1932 first drawn attention to three such stars: AX Per, CI Cyg and RW Hya. At the conclusion of the Mount Wilson Ha emission survey nearly a dozen had been identified, and Z And had become their type star. The numbers slowly grew, as much because the definition widened to include lower-excitation specimens as because new examples of the original type were found. In 1970 Wackerling listed 30; this was the last compendium of symbiotic stars published.

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Ultraviolet Absorption of Refractory Elements by a Dual Laser Plasma Method

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100107821 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 243-246

Author(s):

J.T. Costello ◽

W.G. Lynam ◽

P.K. Carroll

Keyword(s):

Absorption Spectra ◽

Laser Plasma ◽

Optical Pulse ◽

Ionic Species ◽

Neutral Species ◽

Plasma Method ◽

Plasma Technique ◽

Refractory Elements ◽

Delay Times ◽

Dual Laser

AbstractThe dual laser-produced plasma technique for the study of ionic absorption spectra has been developed by the use of two Q-switched ruby lasers to enable independent generation of the absorbing and back-lighting plasmas. Optical pulse handling is used in the coupling cicuits to enable reproducible pulse delays from 250 nsec. to 10 msec, to be achieved. At delay times > 700 nsec. spectra of essentially pure neutral species are observed. The technique is valuable, not only for obtaining the neutral spectra of highly refractory and/or corrosive materials but also for studying behaviour of ionic species as a function of time. Typical spectra are shown in Fig. 1.

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XUV Absorption Spectra of Carbon Ions

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100107444 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 71-73

Author(s):

E. Jannitti ◽

P. Nicolosi ◽

G. Tondello

Keyword(s):

Absorption Spectra ◽

Cross Section ◽

Theoretical Calculations ◽

Photoionization Cross Section ◽

Carbon Ions

AbstractThe photoabsorption spectra of the carbon ions have been obtained by using two laser-produced plasmas. The photoionization cross-section of the CV has been absolutely measured and the value at threshold, σ=(4.7±0.5) × 10−19cm2, as well as its behaviour at higher energies agrees quite well with the theoretical calculations.

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