This is a theoretical study of changes in several characteristics of the spectra of early-type supergiants owing to scattering of continuum radiation. Thomson scattering on free electrons is treated as the scattering mechanism, although the approach used here is quite general. The reason for changes in the spectral class of a star with constant bolometric luminosity and surface temperature is elucidated and the necessary conditions for their realization are introduced. The effect of scattering in the continuum on the magnitude of the intensity jumps in the hydrogen spectrum depending on the degree of ionization is studied. The conditions under which the Schuster mechanism for formation of emission lines sets in are clarified both for an isothermal atmosphere and for an atmosphere with a temperature gradient.
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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 611-629 (November 2020)
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Nikoghossian, A.G. Some Manifestations of Nonstationarity in the Spectra of Early-Type Supergiants. Astrophysics 63, 534–551 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-020-09657-w
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