An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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1) A large piece of thick cloth for use as a bed covering, animal covering, etc, enabling a person or animal to retain natural body heat.
2) Any extended covering or layer (Dictionary.com).
→ blanketed model, → blanketing, → blanketing effect, → line blanketing, → line-blanketed model, → unblanketed model, → wind blanketing.

From M.E., from O.Fr. blanchet, diminutive of blanc "white; white cloth."

Patu "blanket; a kind of woolen cloth," Kermâni dialect poto "wollen; woolly;" cf. Skt. patta- "cloth, colored or fine cloth."

→ line blanketing.

→ line blanketing.

→ line blanketing.

Of an → impact crater, the ejecta that after the → impact event settles back to the Earth's surface. The ejecta blanket is thick near the → crater rim and thin outward from the crater.

→ ejecta; → blanket.

In stellar atmosphere models, the effect of metallic lines on the atmospheric structure of stars. The additional opacities of thousands of metallic lines alter the radiative transfer, leading to changes in the temperature. The emergent spectrum is consequently modified.

→ line-blanketed model.

A stellar atmosphere model which includes metals or uses methods to reproduce their effects, → line blanketing.

→ line; → blanket; → model.

A stellar atmosphere model which ignores metals and their physical effects. → line-blanketed model; → line blanketing.

→ un-; → blanketed model.

A process whereby dense winds of very luminous O type stars modify the temperature and internal structure of the underlying photosphere by scattering back a considerable part of the coming photospheric radiation. Not to be confused with → line blanketing .

Thus called because the wind acts like a blanket and heats the photosphere * by reflecting its radiation; → wind.