Astrophysical: Radiative transfer

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    The impact of surface dynamo magnetic fields on the chemical abundance determination
    The solar abundances of Fe and of the CNO elements play an important role in addressing a number of important issues such as the formation, structure, and...
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    The impact of surface dynamo magnetic fields on the solar iron abundance
    Most chemical abundance determinations ignore that the solar photosphere is significantly magnetized by the ubiquitous presence of a small-scale magnetic field...
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    The Impact of the Angle-average Approximation in the Partial Frequency Redistribution Modeling of the Mg II h–k Doublet Stokes Profiles
    In recent years, the Mg II h and k lines have become increasingly important for the diagnostics of magnetic fields in the solar chromosphere, motivated both by...
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    The Influence of Coronal EUV Irradiance on the Emission in the He I 10830 Å and D3 Multiplets
    Two of the most attractive spectral windows for spectropolarimetric investigations of the physical properties of the plasma structures in the solar chromosphere...
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    The Iron Line Formation Problem in Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Models of Solar-like Photospheres
    This paper presents the results of a detailed theoretical investigation of the iron line formation NLTE problem in a three-dimensional model of the solar...
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    The Lyα Lines of H I and He II: A Differential Hanle Effect for Exploring the Magnetism of the Solar Transition Region
    The Lyα line of He II at 304 Å is one of the spectral lines of choice for EUV channels of narrowband imagers on board space telescopes, which provide...
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    The Magnetic Sensitivity of the (250-278 nm) Fe II Polarization Spectrum
    This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the polarization and magnetic sensitivity of the near-ultraviolet (near-UV) solar spectral lines of Fe II...
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    The Magnetic Sensitivity of the Mg ii k Line to the Joint Action of Hanle, Zeeman, and Magneto-optical Effects
    We highlight the main results of a radiative transfer investigation on the magnetic sensitivity of the solar Mg ii k resonance line at 2795.5 Å, accounting for...
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    The multiple routes of galaxy transformation across the cosmic epochs
    In the local universe most of the stellar mass is in passive galaxies, where star formation isabsent or at very low levels. Understanding what are the...