User:SunderB/Draft:Spectroscopy

Introduction
This draft book contains information about astronomical spectrosopy, how it is done, and what can be learned from it. Based on (but not a copy of) notes from a course.

Some of this could be good for including in General Astronomy if further developed.

Contents

 * 1) Tools of Spectroscopy
 * 2) Spectrometers
 * 3) Spectral Features & Quantities
 * 4) Types of Spectroscopy
 * 5) Light and Matter
 * 6) Hydrogen-like Atoms
 * 7) Electron Transitions
 * 8) Emission and Absorption Processes
 * 9) Kirchhoff-Bunsen Laws
 * 10) Continuum Processes
 * 11) Radiative Transfer
 * 12) HII Regions
 * 13) General Properties
 * 14) Ionisation and Temperature
 * 15) Diagnostics