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The minima of the features are not line positions. 41 nm. They cannot be used to set or check a wavelength scale. 49 nm). Figure 9 shows a section of solar spectrum at 599 nm where each spectrum is plotted twice, once at normal scale and once at 10 times scale to show small differences. The observed spectrum is black, the computed solar spectrum is red, the telluric spectrum is blue, and the transmitted spectrum is magenta. 7 Equation of State All physical data change, hopefully for the better, as time goes by.
Given an atmospheric model, which is like a stellar model, temperature and pressure as a function of altitude, program TRANSYNTHE computes the opacity. Then program TRANSPECTR computes the mean transmission from beginning to end of an observation through the atmosphere down to the telescope. Figure 6 shows absorption by ozone O3 and O2 dimer [O2 ]2 . Figure 7 shows absorption by O2 and H2 O lines in the visible. Including telluric lines requires very high resolution. I typically use a resolving power of 2 million.
There are probably additional missing lines included in both features. Overall the comparison shows a tremendous improvement in the treatment of the Co i feature over my earlier solar calculations. In these plots we compare only the 1 % of my lines that have good wavelengths. Lines that are missing may be among the list of lines with predicted wavelengths. The predicted lines contribute statistically to the total opacity in model calculations. Here are my conclusions from working with high-quality spectra: • Abundances are generally determined from blended features that must be interpreted by synthesizing the spectrum including every significant blending line.
