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This section aims to be no more than a set of pointers to more
complete information and resources. I'm no expert in this field,
myself, so if I've missed some important resource, or
miscontextualised something, please do let me know.
Stellar atmosphere codes:
- CCP7
was a Collaborative
Computational Project, `concerned with the
calculation of theoretical models suitable for the
interpretation of stellar and interstellar spectra'.
As well as promoting the use of advanced computers in
astronomy, it developed a library of
stellar-atmosphere and spectroscopy codes. The
project finished in April 2001, but the resources it
produced are still useful.
- Simon
Jeffery makes available a number of tools
for stellar atmosphere calculations.
- At Robert
Kurucz's home page you can obtain copies of
his ATLAS and other codes, along with grids of model
atmospheres.
- PHOENIX:
state-of-the-art M-star model atmospheres.
Atomic and molecular data:
- The Opacity
Project is a collaborative project to
produce the atomic data required for stellar
envelope calculations. The project makes the
results generally available both through a database
called `TOPbase', and by anonymous FTP.
- Other opacity data is available from the OPAL
code. As well as making precalculated
opacity tables available, you can make requests for
new tables to be generated.
- Atomic data at Kentucky
and Harvard
- JPL Molecular
Spectroscopy
- The Vienna
Atomic Line Database (VALD) is an excellent
site with up-to-date atomic data needed for spectrum
synthesis.
Astronomical chemistry (loosely) -- dust, clouds and the
interstellar medium:
- Cloudy
is a arge-scale plasma simulation code that is widely
used across the astronomical community as an aid in
the interpretation of spectroscopic data.
- DUSTY
is a dust-shell modelling code, also originating at
Kentucky.
A number of CFD
codes are available to buy or download. This is a
collection of pointers and notes about a large number of CFD
codes, from a variety of sources.
Thanks to [SJ], [BS] and
[AS] for
much of the content of this section.
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Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook
Starlink Cookbook 13
Norman Gray
2 December 2001. Release 2-5. Last updated 10 March 2003