Generalized Voigt functions and their derivatives

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-85

  Sampoorna, M ^a,b   Nagendra, K N ^a,b   Frisch, H ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersion function; Line shapes; Partial derivatives; Recurrence relations; Voigt function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISPERSION FUNCTION; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; POLARIZED SPECTRAL LINE; VOIGT FUNCTION;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL METHOD; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33751048610     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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