Ultraviolet Stellar Spectra and Related Ground-Based Observations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I / Stellar Fluxes.
• A. Absolute Calibration.
• 1. Absolute intensity calibration methods in the vacuum UV region.
• 2. An investigation of the properties of vacuum-ultraviolet radiation detectors (Abstract).
• 3. Recent absolute calibration work at Palomar Mountain.
• 4. General discussion (On calibration methods).
• B. Interstellar Extinction.
• 1. Interstellar extinction (Introductory lecture).
• 2. Ultraviolet interstellar extinction from a comparison of ? Persei and ? Pesei.
• 3. Observations of interstellar extinction in the ultraviolet with the OAO satellite.
• 4. On dielectric models of interstellar grains.
• 5. Extinction curves for graphite-silicate grain mixtures.
• 6. Measurement of interstellar extinction in emission line stars.
• 7. The interstellar extinction curve from 4000 Å to 6500 Å.
• C. Theoretical Models for Stellar Fluxes.
• 1. The effective temperatures of the O stars.
• 2. The effect of Silicon and Carbon opacity on ultraviolet stellar spectra.
• D. Observed Stellar Fluxes.
• 1. Review of ultraviolet and visual continuum observations and comparisons with models.
• 2. The stellar temperature scale from 05 to A0.
• 3. On ultraviolet fluxes, bolometric corrections and effective temperatures of late B to F stars.
• 4. Far-ultraviolet intensities of Orion stars.
• 5. Ultraviolet photometry of stars obtained with the Celescope experiment in the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory.
• 6. Photographic magnitudes of 201 stars at 2600 Å.
• 7. Spectrophotometrie integree des galaxies proches dans l’ultraviolet (expérience Persée).
• 8. Low resolution stellar spectrophotometrie observations in the region 1500 Å–3000 Å.
• 9. Absolute stellar photometry in the region 1200 Å–3000 Å.
• 10. Preliminary note on the astronomical satellite Kosmos 215.
• 11. Ultravioletphotometry of stars from OSO II.
• 12. The ultraviolet solar opacity.
• II / Stellar Line Spectra.
• A. Rocket and Satellite Observations of Ultraviolet Spectra.
• 1. Observations of ultraviolet stellar spectra.
• 2. Photoelectric rocket spectra at 10 Å resolution (Abstract).
• 3. Rocket spectroscopy of ? Puppis below 1100 Å.
• 4. Observations of strong stellar lines with the OAO.
• 5. The far-ultraviolet spectrum of ? Cassiopeiae.
• 6. UV spectrophotometry of Canopus from Gemini XI.
• B. Ground-Based Observations of Spectra Relevant to the Ultraviolet.
• 1. Review of ground-based observations of spectra relevant to the ultraviolet.
• 2. Chromospheric activity in red giants, and related phenomena.
• 3. Mass loss from early-type stars.
• C. Theory Relevant to UV Spectra.
• 1. A discussion of the theory for interpreting ultraviolet stellar spectra.
• 2. Possibility of fluorescence phenomena in the ultraviolet spectrum of symbiotic stars and long period variables.
• 3. Radiative acceleration and ultraviolet resonance line profiles in OB supergiants.
• 4. Stellar-wind theory for O and B stars (Abstract).
• D. The Sun — a Typical G2V Star.
• 1. Review of astrophysical conclusions from the UV solar spectra.
• 2. Resonance lines in the solar chromosphere.
• 3. On the contribution of solar activity to the ultraviolet spectrum of the Sun.
• 4. Intensity distribution in the Lyman-? line at the solar limb.
• 5. A high-resolution solar spectrum 2000 Å–2200 Å.
• 6. Fabry-Pérot interferograms of the solar MgII resonance lines.
• III / Interstellar Absorption and Emission.
• A. Absorption Lines.
• 1. Observations of interstellar Lyman-? absorption.
• 2. Observations of interstellar Lyman-? with the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory.
• 3. Interstellar lines other than hydrogen.
• 4. Interstellarmolecular hydrogen (Abstract).
• 5. General discussion.
• B. Emission.
• 1. The night sky brightness measured from satellites Kosmos 51 and 213.
• 2. Mariner 5 measurements of ultraviolet emission from the Galaxy.
• 3. The ultraviolet background (intergalactic gas, the Galaxy, and subcosmic rays).
• 4. Lyman-? radiation from nebular objects.
• Space and ground-based stellar spectrophotometry: a summary.