The first paper of Andrea Perdomo Garcia is just submitted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and out on arxiv.org/abs/2306.03744. The paper is all about computing the opacities for realistic modelling of cool stellar atmospheres. It is divided in three unities. First (Section 3) it describes the computation of detailed monochromatic opacity including millions of atomic and molecular spectral lines and millions of wavelength points. For this the code SYNSPEC (Hubeny and Lanz, 2011, 2017a, b) is used. Then (Section 4) the monochromatic opacities are used to construct opacity distribution function which reduces the number of wavelength points from millions to thousands. The results are compared in detail with ones produced by Kurucz. Some striking similarities and some warning differences are found. Finally (Section 5), the opacity distribution function to construct opacity bins. This method, originally proposed by Nordlund (1982) is the key ingredient for realistically simulating stellar atmospheres in 3D as it reduced the problem further, from thousands of wavelength points to only a few. However, the method depends on a choice of some free parameters. In our paper the possible choices are carefully analyzed and some interesting conclusions are offered.
In Sect.3 there are two figures (Figs.2 and 3) that I find very useful and illustrative. The monochromatic opacity (Fig.2) and the radiative heating rate (Fig.3) are shown as 2D functions of wavelength (X-axis) and height in the atmosphere (Y-axis) for four different cool stars (all with solar metalicity). Optical depths in the continuum and continuum+lines are overplotted.
