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A few things we do not know about stars and model atmospheres

Astrophysics 2016-01-27 v1

Abstract

We list a few things that we do not understand about stars and that most people ignore. These are all hard problems. We can learn more cosmology by working on them to reduce the systematic errors they introduce than by trying to derive cosmological results that are highly uncertain.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0105400,
  title  = {A few things we do not know about stars and model atmospheres},
  author = {Robert L. Kurucz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0105400},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages. Presented at the conference, The Link between Stars and Cosmology, 26-30 March, 2001, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. To be published by Kluwer, eds. M. Chavez, A. Bressan, A. Buzzoni, and D. Mayya