A model for multiple isothermal circumstellar dust shells

Physica Scripta

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Towers, I N ^a   Robinson, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH; BROAD SPECTRAL; CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST SHELLS; GRAIN COMPOSITION; PLANETARY NEBULA; POST-AGB; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; TEACHING AIDS; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

DUST; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; MODELS; SPECTROSCOPY;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 70450187061     PISSN: 00318949     EISSN: 14024896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/80/01/015901     Document Type: Article

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