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Hot Stars with Winds: The CMFGEN Code

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2012

D. John Hillier
D. John Hillier*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 100 Allen Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA email: hillier@pitt.edu
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Abstract

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cmfgen is an atmosphere code developed to model the spectra of a variety of objects – O stars, Wolf-Rayet stars, luminous blue variables, A and B stars, central stars of planetary nebula, and supernovae. The principal computational aim of cmfgen is to determine the temperature and ionization structure of the atmosphere, and the atomic level populations. Toward this end, we have developed several different radiative transfer modules that (a) solve the transfer equation for spherical geometry in the comoving frame, (b) solve the static transfer equation in the plane parallel approximation without, or with, a vertical velocity field, (c) solve the static transfer code for a spherical atmosphere allowing for all relativistic terms, (d) solve the time-dependent spherical transfer equation to first order in v/c for a homologous expansion, and (e) solve the time-dependent spherical transfer equation allowing for all relativistic terms. To achieve consistency between the radiation field, temperature structure, and level populations we use a linearization technique. Line blanketing is accurately treated while complex photoionization cross-sections, containing numerous resonances, can also be handled. Spectra, for comparison with observation, are computed using cmf_flux. Several other auxiliary programs have also been developed – these include diagnostic tools as well as programs that allow the effect on spectra of rotation and departures from spherical geometry to be investigated. In this presentation we will briefly describe cmfgen and auxiliary codes.

Keywords

stars: atmospheresemission lineline: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools , July 2011 , pp. 229 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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