Radiative Transfer

1. An Overview of the Content.- Part I: Scalar Radiative Transfer Equations.- 2. Radiative Transfer Equations.- 3. Exact Methods of Solution: A Brief Survey.- 4. Singular Integral Equations.- 5. The Scattering Kernel and Associated Auxiliary Functions.- 6. The Surface Green Function and the Resolvent Function.- 7. The Emergent Intensity and the Source Function.- 8. Spectral Line with Continuous Absorption.- 9. Conservative Scattering: The Milne Problem.- 10. The Case Eigenfunction Expansion Method.- 11. The -law and the Nonlinear H-Equation.- 12. The Wiener-Hopf Method.- Part II: Scattering Polarization.- 13. The Scattering of Polarized Radiation.- 14. Polarized Radiative Transfer Equations.- 15. The -law, the Nonlinear H-Equation, and Matrix Singular Integral Equations. 16. Conservative Rayleigh Scattering: Exact Solutions.- 17. Scattering Problems with No Exact Solution I: The Auxiliary Matrices.- 18. Scattering Problems with No Exact Solution II: The Resolvent Matrix, theH-Matrix, and the I-Matrix.- Part III: Asymptotic Properties of Multiple Scattering.- 19. Asymptotic Properties of the Scattering Kernel K( ).- 20. Large Scale Radiative Transfer Equations.- 21. The Photon Random Walk.- 22. Asymptotic Behavior of the Resolvent Function.- 23. The Asymptotics of the Diffusion Approximation.- 24. The Diffusion Approximation for Rayleigh Scattering.- 25. Anomalous Diffusion for Spectral Lines.- 26. Asymptotic Results for Partial Frequency Redistribution.

Hélène Frisch (b. 1940, Nantes, France) is a French astrophysicist. She studied physics and astrophysics in Paris (Université de Paris, École Normale Supérieure de Sèvres, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) and became a research scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1963. She held positions with Observatoire de Paris (Meudon) and is since 1971 with Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice. Her research interests are in radiative transfer, especially spectral lines formation.