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Aims. The statistical equilibrium of neutral and ionized silicon in the atmospheres of metal-poor stars is discussed. Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects are investigated and the silicon abundances in metal-poor stars determined.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. R. Shi , T. Gehren , L. Mashonkina , G. Zhao

In the present article, we discuss a numerical method of solution for the so-called "full non-LTE" radiation transfer problem, basic formalism of which was revisited by Paletou & Peymirat (2021; see also Oxenius 1986). More specifically,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 F. Paletou , M. Sampoorna , C. Peymirat

The modeling of the peculiar scattering polarization signals observed in some diagnostically important solar resonance lines requires the consideration of the detailed spectral structure of the incident radiation field as well as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno , Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti

Radiative transfer equilibrium models of nearby interstellar matter (ISM) yield the boundary conditions of the heliosphere when constrained with observations of ISM inside and outside of the heliosphere. Filtration factors for interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priscilla C. Frisch

While solar flares are primarily associated with enhanced ultraviolet and X-ray emission, a subset of flares exhibit significant continuum brightening in visible light and are classified as white-light flares (WLFs). Despite extensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Samuel Granovsky , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alan A. Wray

Our recent re-analysis of the solar photospheric spectra with non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) models resulted in higher metal abundances compared to previous works. When applying the new chemical abundances to Standard Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Manuel A. Bautista , Maria Bergemann , Helena Carvajal Gallego , Sébastien Gamrath , Patrick Palmeri , Pascal Quinet

We present a detailed derivation of heat radiation, heat transfer and (Casimir) interactions for N arbitrary objects in the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics in thermal non-equilibrium. The results can be expressed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 Matthias Krüger , Giuseppe Bimonte , Thorsten Emig , Mehran Kardar

Even quiescent solar prominences may become active and sometimes erupt. These events are occasionally linked to coronal mass ejections. However we know very little about the plasma properties during the activation and eruption processes. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Labrosse , Pierre Gouttebroze , Jean-Claude Vial

Carbon abundances in late-type stars are important in a variety of astrophysical contexts. However C i lines, one of the main abundance diagnostics, are sensitive to departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). We present a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 A. M. Amarsi , P. S. Barklem , R. Collet , N. Grevesse , M. Asplund

Neutral nickel (Ni I) is abundant in the solar atmosphere and is one of the important elements that contribute to the emission and absorption of radiation in the spectral range between 1900 and 3900 A. Previously, the Solar Radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mariela C. Vieytes , Juan M. Fontenla

Probing the magnetism of the upper solar chromosphere requires measuring and modeling the scattering polarization produced by anisotropic radiation pumping in UV spectral lines. Here we apply PORTA (a novel radiative transfer code) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiri Stepan , Javier Trujillo Bueno , Jorrit Leenaarts , Mats Carlsson

In many astrophysical objects an account for scattering of the X-ray fluorescent and resonance lines of iron ions by the electrons, bound in atomic and molecular hydrogen is important. Specific distortions of the scattered line profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Sunyaev , E. Churazov

We investigated the reliability of our silicon atomic model and the influence of non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) on the formation of neutral silicon (Si I) lines in the near-infrared (near-IR) H-band. We derived the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Junbo Zhang , Jianrong Shi , Kaike Pan , Carlos Allende Prieto , Chao Liu

This is an overview of non-equilibrium aspects of the formation of solar continua and lines affecting the contributions by magnetic network and plage to spectrally resolved solar irradiance. After a brief summary of these contributions and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-03 Robert J. Rutten

Europium plays a key role in studies of nucleosynthesis in the rapid (r-) process of neutron capture nuclear reactions and the evolution of the r-process element abundances in galaxies. We refine the method for analyzing the Eu~II lines in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 L. I. Mashonkina , S. A. Yakovleva

The primary inversion of the accurately measured frequencies of solar oscillations determines the mechanical properties of the Sun, i.e., the sound speed and density as a function of solar radius. In order to infer the temperature and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre

Radiative heat transfer (RHT) and radiative thermal energy (RTE) for 2D nanoparticle ensembles are investigated in the framework of many-body radiative heat transfer theory. We consider nanoparticles made of different materials: metals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Minggang Luo , Junming Zhao , Linhua Liu , Mauro Antezza

Molecules with hyperfine splitting of their rotational line spectra are useful probes of optical depth, via the relative line strengths of their hyperfine components.The hyperfine splitting is particularly advantageous in interpreting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 A. M. Mullins , R. M. Loughnane , M. P. Redman , B. Wiles , N. Guegan , J. Barrett , E. R. Keto

The interpretation of water lines in red supergiant stellar atmospheres has been much debated over the past decade. The introduction of the so-called MOLspheres to account for near-infrared "extra" absorption has been controversial. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Julien Lambert , Eric Josselin , Nils Ryde , Alexandre Faure

In this paper we have extended our previous modeling of energy balance in the chromosphere-corona transition region to cases with particle and mass flows. The cases considered here are quasi-steady, and satisfy the momentum and energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Fontenla , E. H. Avrett , R. Loeser