Astrophysical Applications of Powerful New Databases

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Table of Contents

Introduction
New Atomic Data For Astronomy: An Introductory Review 1
Summary of the Iron and Opacity Projects 19
The OPAL Opacity Code: New Results 31
Atomic Structure Calculations and New Los Alamos Astrophysical Opacities
Analytic Fits for Partial Photoionization Cross Sections 57
Photoionization Model Computation Database 61
Low Temperature Rosseland Opacities 63
Opacities of Very Cool and Dense Gaseous Mixtures - An Extension of Stellar Opacities to the Substellar Regime 69
Low Temperature Opacities Applied to Solar Calibrated Models 75
Atomic Data for Bound-Bound and Bound-Free Opacities of Hydrogen in a Strong Magnetic Field 81
Nonideal Effects of Dense Plasma on Solar Opacity 93
The Equation of State in the Chemical Picture: A Grand Canonical Approach 99
Critically Evaluated Data for Atomic Spectra 105
Data for Weak Lines 125
Theoretical Atomic Parameters for Databases 139
Atomic Data for Absorption Lines From the Ground Level at Wavelengths Longward of 228 A 145
Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Ga II and Ga III Lines 151
M1 and E2 Transitions in 5p[superscript k] (k = 1-5) Configurations of Xe Ions 157
Why Stark Broadening Parameters are Important for Stellar Atmosphere Opacity Calculations 161
The Modified Semiempirical Approach for the Stark Widths of Complex Ion Lines of Astrophysical Interest 165
On The Stark Broadening of Na IX Spectral Lines 169
Stark Broadening of A1 XI Spectral Lines 175
Molecular Databases 179
The Kurucz Smithsonian Atomic and Molecular Database 205
Cepheids: Pulsation, Evolution, Opacity 211
Cepheid Variables: Period Ratios and Mass Determination 225
Hydrodynamic Simulation of a Double-Mode Cepheid with the OPAL Opacities 239
Horizontal Branch Evolution and RR Lyrae Star Pulsation 243
BV Aquarii: a Double-Mode RR Lyrae Variable with Peculiar Period Ratio 265
The RR Lyrae Stars in the Globular Cluster [omega] Centauri: Period-Luminosity Relations and Background Light 271
Pulsation in Hot Stars 275
Calculated Late-time Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae: Atomic Needs and Astrophysical Interest 291
The Role of Opacities in Accretion Disks 301
The Vertical Oscillations of Thin Accretion Disks Obtained with OPAL Opacities 315
Opacities in Strong Magnetic Fields and the Atmospheres of Magnetic White Dwarfs 319
Opacities Old and New In White Dwarf Models 345
Opacity Incompleteness and Atmospheres of Cool Stars 347
Synthetic Spectra, Synthetic Colours and Line Lists 365
Chromospheric and Coronal Spectra 371
A nonLTE Analysis of Procyon Using Kurucz's ATLAS9 Model Atmospheres 389
Oscillator Strengths for Zr I and Zr II and the Solar Abundance of Zirconium 395
The Determination of the Solar Iron Abundance from Fe I Lines 399
Abundances of Elements in [gamma] Draconis 407
A Large Astrophysical Database of Stellar Evolutionary Tracks: First Application to Globular Clusters Ages 411
Helioseismology 417
The Atmospheres of Chemically Peculiar Stars: A Laboratory for Atomic Physics 423
Radiative Accelerations In Stars Using Atomic Data from the Opacity Project 439
Elemental Abundances of the Magnetic Chemically Peculiar Star HD 204411 443
Stellar Winds in A-Type Supergiants 451
Astrophysical gf Values from High S/N Data of A Type Stars 455
Combined Stellar Structure and Atmosphere Models: Exploratory Results for Wolf-Rayet Stars 467
Spherically Symmetric NLTE Model Atmospheres Using Approximate Lambda Operators 473
What Nebular Observations and Photoionization Models Can Tell Us About Atmospheres of Hot Stars 479
Atmospheres and Winds of Hot Stars: The Impact of New Opacity Calculations and Continuing Needs 509
Summary and Outlook, Future Needs for Atomic Data 527
Author Index 539
Subject Index 541
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