Astr 501 | Lecture 24 | Fall 2022
Astronomy 501
Lecture 24, Oct 19 Fall 2022

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Fun Movies: SOHO in Real Time


Thermodynamics of Atomic States

  • state populations: partition function
  • partition cutoff
  • ionization equilibrium: Saha equation
  • awesome example: cosmic recombination of hydrogen

Radiative Transitions

  • semiclassical approximation
  • transition probabilities
  • dipole approximation
  • selection rules
 The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen
 The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen

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