Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Physics of Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2017-04-12 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Lecture notes for 8 lectures on the `Physics of Lyman alpha Radiative Transfer', given at the 46th Saas-Fee winter school held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland on March 13-19 2016. These lectures aimed at offering basic insights into Lyman alpha (Lya) radiative processes including emission processes and Lya radiative transfer, and highlighting some of the physics associated with these processes. The notes include derivations in greater detail than what was discussed during the lectures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.03416,
title = {Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Physics of Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer},
author = {Mark Dijkstra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03416},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
80 pages, 55 figures. Chapter 4.2 and parts of Chapter 8 & 10 contain extended versions of sections from my reviews published in 2014 & 2016. Comments/questions welcome