Uitenbroek's lecture material on applied spectropolarimetry: radiative transfer

Lecture slides:

Session 01: Feb. 11, 2016: Basic concepts in radiative transfer and non-LTE (21 MB PDF)

Session 02: Feb. 16, 2016: Polarized radiative transfer; contribution & response functions (2.2 MB PDF)

Session 03: Feb. 18, 2016: Atomic spectral lines (3.6 MB PDF)

Session 04: Feb. 23, 2016: Molecular spectral lines (3.2 MB PDF)

Session 05: Feb. 25, 2016: Continuum opacity, partial freq. redistribution, molecular line contamination (3.9 MB PDF)