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VI/82               Stark broadening of H lines      (Stehle 1995)
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Stark broadening of Hydrogen lines in the conditions of stellar envelopes
     Stehle C.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 104, 509 (1994)>
    =1994A&AS..104..509S
    <Vienna International Workshop on Model Atmospheres and Spectrum
     syntheses for mid-B to mid-G stars, at or close to the Main Sequence,
     (July 6 to July 11 1995) (to be published in Conferences Series of ASP)>
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ADC_Keywords: Atomic physics
Keywords:  atomic data - atomic processes - lines profiles

Description:
    Tables of Stark broadened hydrogen lines of the Lyman, Balmer and
    Paschen series are presented under the conditions of stellar
    envelopes. The formalism is based on the Model Microfield Method (MMM)
    (Brissaud and Frisch, Frisch and Brissaud 1971) for both the
    electronic and ionic contributions to the line shape.
    The range of temperatures is 10000 to 80000 K, and electronic
    densities between 3.2E+14 and 3.2E+16 cm-3.

    Lyman and Balmer results were published in A&AS 104, 509,
    whereas Paschen results were presented at the 1995 July Workshop
    in Vienna.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
h.dat           94      12770    Stark effect with H+ perturbers
he.dat          94       4526    Stark effect with He+ perturbers
ar.dat          94       4526    Stark effect with Ar+ perturbers
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Byte-per-byte Description of file: h.dat he.dat ar.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  2  I2     ---     lower    [1/3] Lower state
                                    (1=Lyman, 2=Balmer, 3=Paschen)
   3-  4  I2     ---     upper    [2/17] Upper state (upper > lower)
   6- 14  F9.2   0.1nm   lambda0  Wavelength of the line center
  16- 24  E9.3   ---     Kalpha   Asymptotic value of  iStark*(alpha^2.5)
  26- 34  E9.3   cm-3    Ne       Electron density
  36- 44  E9.3   30kV/m  E0       Dlambda/Dalpha = E0, normal Holtsmark
                                    field strength (1)
  46- 54  E9.3   K       T        Temperature
  56- 64  E9.3   ---     R0/Debye Ratio of the mean interelectronic distance
                                    to the electronic Debye length (2)
  66- 74  E9.3   "alpha" Dalpha   Detuning from central wavelength (3)
  76- 84  E9.3 1/"alpha" iDoppler Intensity with Doppler (convolved)
  86- 94  E9.3 1/"alpha" iStark   Intensity with Stark only
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Note (1): the normal Holstmark electric field strength is:
     E0 = e  * (4*pi/3) * Ne^(2/3)
     Its value is (in ues-cgs electric field units uesVolts/cm):
     E0 = 1.25E-9 * Ne^(2/3) in CGS-ues units  (Ne expressed in cm-3)
Note (2): the Debye length is
          Debye = sqrt(eps0*k*T/Ne)/e          (eps0 = dielectric constant)
                = 6.92 sqrt(T/Ne)     cm (CGS units, Ne in cm-3)
                = 69.2 sqrt(T/Ne)     m  (SI units, Ne in m-3)
     The ratio R0/Debye is: 0.0898 (Ne^(1/6))/(T^(1/2))
Note (3): The unit "alpha" is defined by
     "alpha" = lambda0 / E0
      where    lambda0 is the unperturbed wavelength (in Angstroems = 0.1nm),
               E0 is the normal Holstmark electric field in     uesVolts/cm
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References:
  Brissaud A., Frisch U., 1971, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 11, 1767
  Frisch U., Brissaud A., 1971, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 11, 1753
  Vidal C.R., Cooper J., Smith E.W., 1973, ApJS 25, 37

Author's Address:
    Chantal Stehle   <Chantal.Stehle@obspm.fr>
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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  30-Sep-1995

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