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New efforts to calculate opacity have produced significant improvements in the quality of stellar models. The most dramatic effect has been large opacity enhancements for stars subject to large amplitude pulsations. Significant improvement in helioseismic modeling has also been obtained. A description and comparisons of the new opacity efforts are given.
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Rogers, F.J., Iglesias, C.A. Opacity of Stellar Matter. Space Science Reviews 85, 61–70 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005132518820
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