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S. L. Pistinner

Publications and source records attributed to S. L. Pistinner.

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arXiv1998

Spectroscopy Of Low Metallicity Giant H II Regions: A grid of low Metallicity Stellar atmospheres

We calculate a grid of spherically symmetric OB stellar atmospheres at low metallicities, including both non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) and metal line blanketing effects. This is done to assess the uncertainties in helium abundance determination by nebular codes due to input stellar atmosphere models. The more sophisticated stellar atmosphere models we use can differ from LTE models by as much as 40 percent in the ratio of He to H-ionizing photons.

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arXiv1998

Self Inhibiting Heat-Flux

Heat-transfer through weakly magnetized diffuse astrophysical plasmas excites whistlers. This leads to electron whistler resonant scattering, a reduction of the electron mean-free path, and heat-flux inhibition. However, only whistlers propagating at a finite angle to the magnetic field (off-axis) can scatter the heat-flux carrying electrons. Thus, the level of heat flux-inhibition along the magnetic field lines depends on the presence of off-axis whistlers.

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