2003/02/04 by Stefan Jordan, Holger Schmidt
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as ASP conference series, Workshop on Atmosphere Modeling, Tuebingen, April 8-12, 2002 · 4 pages
arxiv created 2003/02/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We compare four different methods to calculate radiative transfer through a magnetized stellar atmosphere, and apply them to the case of magnetic white dwarfs. All methods are numerically stable enough to allow determination of the magnetic field structure, but distinctions between faster, simplifying, methods, and elaborate, but more CPU-time consuming, methods, can be made.