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The idea of unfolding iterative algorithms as deep neural networks has been widely applied in solving sparse coding problems, providing both solid theoretical analysis in convergence rate and superior empirical performance. However, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yuhai Song , Zhong Cao , Kailun Wu , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

Manganese (Mn) is a key Fe-group elements, commonly employed in stellar population and nucleosynthesis studies to explore the role of SN Ia. We have developed a new non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) model of Mn, including new…

We present a technique to treat systems with very many levels, like molecules, in non-LTE. This method is based on a superlevel formalism coupled with rate operator splitting. Superlevels consist of many individual levels that are assumed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andreas Schweitzer , Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Aiming at testing the validity of our magnesium atomic model and investigating the effects of non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) on the formation of the H-band neutral magnesium lines, we derive the differential Mg abundances from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Junbo Zhang , Jianrong Shi , Kaike Pan , Carlos Allende Prieto , Chao Liu

Context. Departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) distort the calcium abundance derived from stellar spectra in various ways, depending on the lines used and the stellar atmospheric parameters. The collection of atomic data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Y. Osorio , K. Lind , P. S. Barklem , C. Allende Prieto , Oleg Zatsarinny

We run a numerical linked-cluster expansion with a quantum algorithm (NLCE+QA), computing ground-state energies and one quasi-particle dispersions in the thermodynamic limit using a 20-qubit trapped-ion quantum processing unit (QPU). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lucas Marti , Sumeet , Stefan Wolf , K. P. Schmidt , Michael J. Hartmann

It is generally accepted that the atmospheres of cool/lukewarm stars of spectral types A and later are described well by LTE model atmospheres, while the O-type stars require a detailed treatment of NLTE effects. Here model atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Norbert Przybilla , Maria-Fernanda Nieva , Keith Butler

Present observational techniques provide stellar spectra with high resolution at a high signal-to-noise ratio over the complete wavelength range -- from the far infrared to the X-ray. NLTE effects are particularly important for hot stars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Rauch , Jochen L. Deetjen , Stefan Dreizler , Klaus Werner

We present LTE and NLTE atmospheric models of a star with solar parameters, and study the effect of treating many thousands of Iron group lines out of LTE on the computed atmospheric structure, overall absolute flux distribution, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. I. Short , P. H. Hauschildt

The L1-regularized Gaussian maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) has been shown to have strong statistical guarantees in recovering a sparse inverse covariance matrix, or alternatively the underlying graph structure of a Gaussian Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Cho-Jui Hsieh , Matyas A. Sustik , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar

We present atmospheric parameters for 51 nearby FG dwarfs uniformly distributed over the -2.60 < [Fe/H] < +0.20 metallicity range that is suitable for the Galactic chemical evolution research. Lines of iron, Fe I and Fe II, were used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 T. Sitnova , G. Zhao , L. Mashonkina , Y. Q. Chen , F. Liu , Yu. Pakhomov , K. Tan , M. Bolte , S. Alexeeva , F. Grupp , J. -R. Shi , H. -W. Zhang

In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) framework enhanced by an operator-adapted wavelet decomposition algorithm designed for the efficient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems. Usual adaptive FEM approaches,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 F. Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

We present a novel framework for Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU)-style decomposition tailored to structured sparse matrices, which frequently arise in the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). While LCU is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Amit Surana

We investigate statistical equilibrium of neutral and singly-ionized strontium in late-type stellar atmospheres. Particular attention is given to the completeness of the model atom, which includes new energy levels, transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Bergemann , C. J. Hansen , M. Bautista , G. Ruchti

Typical features of the Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) algorithm in connection with stub loading techniques and prone to be hidden in common frequency domain formulations are elucidated within the propagator approach to TLM. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Steffen Hein

Radiative transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) has been increasingly adressed, mostly numerically, for about six decades now. However the standard non-LTE problem most often refers to the only deviation of the distribution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 F. Paletou , C. Peymirat

Estimation of a sparse spectral precision matrix, the inverse of a spectral density matrix, is a canonical problem in frequency-domain analysis of high-dimensional time series (HDTS), with applications in neurosciences and environmental…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-11 Navonil Deb , Amy Kuceyeski , Sumanta Basu

This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

A distributed adaptive algorithm for estimation of sparse unknown parameters in the presence of nonGaussian noise is proposed in this paper based on normalized least mean fourth (NLMF) criterion. At the first step, local adaptive NLMF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Mojtaba Hajiabadi

Ultraviolet over-ionisation of iron atoms in the solar atmosphere leads to deviations in their level populations from the Saha-Boltzmann statistics. This causes their line profiles to form in Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 H. N. Smitha , R. Holzreuter , M. van Noort , S. K. Solanki