Polarization of solar lines arises due to illumination of radiating atom by anisotropic (limb darkened/brightened) radiation. Modelling the polarized spectra of the Sun and stars requires solution of the line radiative transfer problem in which the relevant polarizing physical mechanisms are incorporated. The purpose of this paper is to describe in

The answers to fundamental science questions in astrophysics, ranging from the history of the expansion of the universe to the sizes of nearby stars, hinge on our ability to make precise measurements of diverse astronomical objects. As our knowledge of the underlying physics of objects improves along with advances in detectors and instrumentation

The Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) attempts to find planetary transits among bright stars. The two telescope used are the 10cm Sleuth Telescope (Palomar Observatory, California) and the 10cm Planet Search Survey Telescope (PSST) at Lowell Observatory, Arizona. The survey area covers 5.7 degrees by 5.7 degrees and is centered on the star 16

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We present an empirical approach to model the wing polarization of strong resonance lines. This procedure based on `last scattering approximation' (LSA) was developed by citet{ste80,ste82}, for coherent scattering in the laboratory frame. We generalize his empirical approach to handle partial frequency redistribution (PRD). We illustrate this