THE EFFECT OF STRONG SCATTERING PROCESSES IN THE CONTINUUM ON THE STELLAR EMERGENT ENERGY-DISTRIBUTION

The numerical solution of the idealized, but self-consistent, LTE atmo sphere problem posed by the authors has been used to introduce the eff ect of multiple scattering on the temperature gradient, the spectral d istribution of the observed flux and the intensity discontinuities. In the theoretical consideration of the problem, the nature of scatterin g processes is not concretized because, in general, common Thomson sca ttering on free electrons is not necessarily the only nor the most eff ective mechanism among the scattering processes. Copyright (C) 1966 El sevier Science Ltd