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Frequency Redistribution during Scattering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J.D. Argyros*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Queensland

Extract

A photon with frequency in the range v to v + dv travelling in a direction n̂ within the solid angle dΩ is written (v, n̂).

Considering a mass of gas which is stationary relative to an observer and whose atoms are in continuous random thermal motion, then a redistribution function

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Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968

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