Radiative Transfer Under Inhomogeneous Configurations

Bendicho, P. Fabiani
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Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 263, Issue 1/4, p. 223-226 (1998).

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1998
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We present, for the first time, three dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) results with realistic atomic models (multilevel) and without using the local thermodinamical equilibrium approximation (non-LTE). We have developed a new code based on efficient iterative methods (Trujillo Bueno, and Fabiani Bendicho 1995; Fabiani Bendicho, Trujillo Bueno and Auer 1997) characterized by a very high convergence rate. With this 3D multilevel code and using a schematic atmospheric model we are able to demonstrate that one may need self-consistent multidimensional RT calculations in order to interpret high spatial resolution solar spectroscopic observations.