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In this chapter we study some of the main physical processes responsible for the opacity in the stellar interior. These processes include basically bound–bound, bound–free, free–bound, and free–free transitions.
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Maciel, W.J. (2016). Opacity. In: Introduction to Stellar Structure. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16142-6_8
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