Abstract
The chemical composition or the elemental abundances in the Sun and stars are of fundamental importance for modeling the nucleosynthesis in cosmology, stellar evolution models, or EUV and soft X-ray emission spectra from solar and stellar atmospheres.
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Aschwanden, M.J. (2019). Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy. In: New Millennium Solar Physics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 458. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13956-8_2
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