Abstract
In this section I briefly describe my efforts to improve the atomic and molecular line data. This work is described in more detail in Kurucz (1992a). In subsequent sections I briefly describe three methods for computing opacity and the models and spectra that result from using them.My model calculations in the 1970s used the distribution-function line opacity computed by Kurucz (1979a,b) from the line data of Kurucz & Peytremann (1975). We had computedgfvalues for 1.7 million atomic lines for sequences up through nickel using scaled-Thomas-Fermi-Dirac wavefunctions and eigenvectors determined from least squares Slater parameter fits to the observed energy levels. We also collected all published data ong fvalues and included them in the line list whenever they appeared to be more reliable than the computed data (that work is ongoing, but I am running behind).
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