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- I have read about column density but I am unable to get a clear idea about it.
What is column density in astronomy?
What is column density in astronomy?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_density
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/400/4/2050/1746878
http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/spring02/scalo/aikawa.pdf
Could you post some links to your reading so far, and point out what is confusing? Doing a Google search on your thread title turns up lots of good hits, IMO...ray_mcintos said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_density
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/400/4/2050/1746878
http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/spring02/scalo/aikawa.pdf
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/680323/pdf
Section 4 in the above link, I was trying to understand the way to calculate but I am not clear about the derivation and in the section 15 there are some examples of column density calculation that one too.
Section 4 in the above link, I was trying to understand the way to calculate but I am not clear about the derivation and in the section 15 there are some examples of column density calculation that one too.