Atmospheric turbulence measured in stars above the main sequence. (original) (raw)

NASA/ADS

Abstract

Measurements of broadened line profiles are analyzed to identify, measure, and separate macroturbulence from rotation. Evidence is presented for the possibility of more than one macroturbulence velocity distribution.

Publication:

The Astrophysical Journal

Pub Date:

November 1975

DOI:

10.1086/153960

Bibcode:

1975ApJ...202..148G

Keywords:

• Atmospheric Turbulence;
• Line Spectra;
• Stellar Atmospheres;
• Stellar Rotation;
• Giant Stars;
• Spectral Line Width;
• Supergiant Stars;
• Velocity Distribution;
• Astrophysics