Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
For material stratified in parallel planes in local thermodynamical equilibrium we have Milne's well-known result that
where πF is the constant net integrated flux of radiation, τ is the optical depth and B is the “ergiebigkeit” which is related to the temperature T by the relation
σ being the Stefan-Boltzmann constant. If we define the effective temperature by the relation
we have from (1)
where T1 is the temperature ar τ = 1. In this note we establish a similar result for extended photospheres where the curvature of the outer layers is properly taken into account.
page 390 note * Kosirev, N. A., Monthly Notices Roy. Astr. Soc., 94 (1934), 430CrossRefGoogle Scholar; S. Chandrasekhar, ibid. 94 (1934), 444.
page 393 note * For the cases n = 3 and 2, I (p) can be evaluated, and the explicit expressions have already been given in the author's earlier paper (loc. cit.).