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Opacity of Ejecta in Calculations of Supernova Light Curves. / Potashov, M. Sh; Blinnikov, S. I.; Sorokina, E. I.
In: Astronomy Letters, Vol. 47, No. 4, 04.2021, p. 204-213.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Opacity of Ejecta in Calculations of Supernova Light Curves
AU - Potashov, M. Sh
AU - Blinnikov, S. I.
AU - Sorokina, E. I.
N1 - Funding Information: This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-02-00567). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Pleiades Publishing, Inc.
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - The plasma opacity in stars depends mainly on the local state of matter (the density, temperature, and chemical composition at the point of interest), but in supernova ejecta it also depends on the expansion velocity gradient, because the Doppler effect shifts the spectral lines differently in different ejecta layers. This effect is known in the literature as the expansion opacity. The existing approaches to the inclusion of this effect, in some cases, predict different results in identical conditions. In this paper we compare the approaches of Blinnikov (1996) and Friend and Castor (1983)–Eastman and Pinto (1993) to calculating the opacity in supernova ejecta and give examples of the influence of different approximations on the model light curves of supernovae.
AB - The plasma opacity in stars depends mainly on the local state of matter (the density, temperature, and chemical composition at the point of interest), but in supernova ejecta it also depends on the expansion velocity gradient, because the Doppler effect shifts the spectral lines differently in different ejecta layers. This effect is known in the literature as the expansion opacity. The existing approaches to the inclusion of this effect, in some cases, predict different results in identical conditions. In this paper we compare the approaches of Blinnikov (1996) and Friend and Castor (1983)–Eastman and Pinto (1993) to calculating the opacity in supernova ejecta and give examples of the influence of different approximations on the model light curves of supernovae.
KW - light curves
KW - opacity
KW - radiative transfer
KW - supernovae
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111260471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S1063773721030051
DO - 10.1134/S1063773721030051
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111260471
VL - 47
SP - 204
EP - 213
JO - Astronomy Letters
JF - Astronomy Letters
SN - 1063-7737
IS - 4
ER -
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