Abstract

We present new investigations into spectral line shapes under conditions typical for magnetic stellar atmospheres. Our method for simulating line profiles takes into account the coupled Zeeman and Stark effects. The calculations presented here will ultimately help to correctly model the Stokes parameters of peculiar stellar objects such as the Magnetic White Dwarfs (MWDs), retrieving their magnetic field geometries from spectropolarimetric observations. For the magnetic analysis of this class of stars, in general only Stokes I profiles as a function of rotational phase have been used in the past, in a very few cases, also Stokes V. The present improved simulations of the full Stokes parameters are expected to provide a powerful tool for the analysis of strong magnetic fields like those found in the MWDs.

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