Comparison of Monte-Carlo and Einstein methods in the light-gas interactions

2010/01/18 by Jacques Moret‐Bailly, Jacques Moret-Bailly, Moret-Bailly, Jacques
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #physics.gen-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.2780

2 pages+figure

arxiv created 2010/01/18 · openalex publication_date 2010/01/18 · arxiv updated 2010/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

To study the propagation of light in nebulae, many astrophysicists use a Monte-Carlo computation which does not take interferences into account. Replacing the wrong method by Einstein coefficients theory gives, on an example, a theoretical spectrum much closer to the observed one.

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