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Spectroscopic methods offer a large variety of possibilities to diagnose plasmas in the laboratory and in space, the apparatus required being one of the least complicated in many cases. Astronomical objects are the sun, the stars, and the interstellar matter. Plasmas in the laboratory range at low temperatures from low-density plasmas as nowadays mostly used for plasma processing to high density arcs and plasma torches at atmospheric pressure; at high temperatures pulsed but long-lived low density plasmas in magnetically confined fusion devices such as tokamaks and stellarators are at one end, short-lived inertially confined pellets having densities up to 100 times solid-state density represent the other end.
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Kunze, HJ. (2009). Introduction. In: Introduction to Plasma Spectroscopy. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02233-3_1
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