On the broadening and shift of spectral
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Walter Rensbergen; Elise Doncker; Ghislain Deridder
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Article
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1975
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Springer
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English
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The Van der Waals interaction between a radiator and a light neutral perturber explains the broadening and shift of spectral lines only partly satisfactorily. Comparison with solar observations suggests that these theoretical damping constants are systematically too low. Moreover, the theoretically