STELLAR ATMOSPHERES

HARVARD OBSERVATORY MONOGRAPHS
HARLOW SHAPLEY, EDITOR

No. 1

STELLAR ATMOSPHERES

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE REVERSING LAYERS OF STARS

BY

CECILIA H. PAYNE

PUBLISHED BY THE OBSERVATORY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
1925

COPYRIGHT, 1925
BY HARVARD OBSERVATORY

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