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Contact: F.X.Timmes
my one page vitae,
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research statement, and
teaching statement.
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There are occasions where analytical approximations to the radiative and conductive opacities
are a useful tool - as opposed to invoking the heavy machinery of opacity tables.
Such a tool is in
sig99.tar.xz,
described in Appendix A of this
article.
Here is an example of the results for pure carbon:
The tool kapfxt.tar.xz
has nearly the same physics approximations, but also returns analytic first derivatives
with respect to the temperature and density. Here is an example of the results
for a solar composition:
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