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Solar spectropolarimetric inversion -- inferring atmospheric conditions from the Stokes vector -- is a key diagnostic tool for understanding solar magnetism, but traditional inversion methods are computationally expensive and sensitive to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ryan James Campbell , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Carlos Quintero Noda

Absorption-line spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to estimate element abundances in the nearby as well as distant universe. The accuracy of the abundances thus derived is, naturally, limited by the accuracy of the atomic data assumed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Romas Kisielius , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Gary J. Ferland , Pavel Bogdanovich , Matt L. Lykins

Stokes inversion codes are crucial in returning properties of the solar atmosphere, such as temperature and magnetic field strength. However, the success of such algorithms to return reliable values can be hindered by the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 P. H. Keys , O. Steiner , G. Vigeesh

We develop a new method to determine oscillator strength values of atomic absorption lines with state-of-the-art detailed spectral synthesis calculations of the optical spectrum of the Sun and of standard spectral reference stars. We update…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Lobel

A selection of five proteinogenic amino acids, namely glycine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan were studied in the mid-infrared and in the far-infrared with the purpose to facilitate the search and identification of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 S. Iglesias-Groth , F. Cataldo

We study non-LTE inversions of the Ca II infrared triplet lines as a tool for inferring physical properties of the quiet Sun. The inversion code is successful in recovering the temperature, velocity and longitudinal magnetic flux density in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Pietarila , H. Socas-Navarro , T. Bogdan

Milne-Eddington (M-E) inversion codes for the radiative transfer equation are the most widely used tools to infer the magnetic field from observations of the polarization signals in photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 J. M. Borrero , B. W. Lites , A. Lagg , R. Rezaei , M. Rempel

The emergence of large spectroscopic surveys requires homogenising on the same scale the quantities they measure in order to increase their scientific legacy. We developed the SpectroTranslator, a data-driven deep neural network algorithm…

Spectropolarimetric inversions are routinely used in the field of Solar Physics for the extraction of physical information from observations. The application to two-dimensional fields of view often requires the use of supercomputers with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Asensio Ramos , C. Diaz Baso

The accurate determination of atom numbers is an ubiquitous problem in the field of ultracold atoms. For modest atom numbers, absolute calibration techniques are available, however, for large numbers and high densities, the available…

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Spectral lines from interstellar molecules provide crucial insights into the physical and chemical conditions of the interstellar medium. Traditional spectral line analysis relies heavily on manual intervention, which becomes impractical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yisheng Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Tie Liu , Fengyao Zhu , Dezhao Meng , Huaxi Chen , Thomas Möller , Peter Schilke , Donghui Quan

We develop a new method for analytical inversion of binned exoplanet transit spectra and for retrieval of planet parameters. The method has a geometrical interpretation and treats each observed spectrum as a single vector $\vec r$ in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman

This paper proposes a novel and rapid calibration-free wavelength modulation spectroscopy algorithm based on even-order harmonics. The proposed algorithm, analytically deduced from Voigt line-shape function, only involves simple algebraic…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yihong Wang , Bin Zhou , Chang Liu

Emission line profiles of tracer molecule H$_2$CO 140 GHz transition from gravitational core collapsing clouds in the dynamic process of forming protostars are calculated, using a simple ray-tracing radiative transfer model. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yang Gao , Yu-Qing Lou , Kinwah Wu

Spectral inversion techniques based on the cloud model are extremely useful for the study of properties and dynamics of various chromospheric cloud-like structures. Several inversion techniques are reviewed based on simple (constant source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kostas Tziotziou

When inverting solar spectra, image degradation effects that are present in the data are usually approximated or not considered. We develop a data reduction method that takes these issues into account and minimizes the resulting errors. By…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. van Noort

The convectively driven, weakly magnetized regions of the solar photosphere dominate the Sun's surface at any given time, but the temporal variations of these quiet regions of the photosphere throughout the solar cycle are still not well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 James Crowley , Ivan Milic , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin Reardon

One of the challenges in single particle reconstruction in cryo-electron microscopy is to find a three-dimensional model of a molecule using its two-dimensional noisy projection-images. In this paper, we propose a robust "angular…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Gabi Pragier , Yoel Shkolnisky

Spectral line surveys are useful since they allow identification of new molecules and new lines in uniformly calibrated data sets. Nonetheless, large portions of the sub-millimetre spectral regime remain unexplored due to severe absorptions…