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Old 23-July-2007, 09:46 PM
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Doppler thermal broadening, you mean? No, that only shows up in sharp lines. The thermal broadening is only about 1 part in 10,000 of the spectrum-- the solar continuum must rely on the fact that the photon can be created at many different energies even in the rest frame of the emitter, because it is a bound-free process involving H minus.
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