Astrophysical: Radiative transfer

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    Scale Lengths in Disk Surface Brightness as Probes of Dust Extinction in Three Spiral Galaxies: M51, NGC 3631, and NGC 4321
    We have measured the radial brightness distributions in the disks of three nearby face-on spiral galaxies, M51, NGC 3631, and NGC 4321 (M100), in the...
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    Scattering Polarization in the Ca II Infrared Triplet with Velocity Gradients
    Magnetic field topology, thermal structure, and plasma motions are the three main factors affecting the polarization signals used to understand our star. In...
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    Scattering Polarization of Hydrogen Lines in Weakly Magnetized Stellar Atmospheres. I. Formulation and Application to Isothermal Models
    Although the spectral lines of hydrogen contain valuable information on the physical properties of a variety of astrophysical plasmas, including the upper solar...
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    Scattering Polarization of the Ca II IR Triplet for Probing the Quiet Solar Chromosphere
    The chromosphere of the quiet Sun is a very important stellar atmospheric region whose thermal and magnetic structure we need to decipher in order to unlock new...
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    Self-consistent models for Coulomb heated X-ray pulsar atmospheres
    Calculations of accreting magnetized neutron star atmospheres heated by the gradual deceleration of protons via Coulomb collisions are presented. Self...
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    Semi-empirical Models of Spicule from Inversion of Ca II 8542 Å Line
    We study a solar spicule observed off-limb using high-resolution imaging spectroscopy in the Ca II 8542 Å line obtained with the CRisp Imaging...
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    Small-scale Magnetic Flux Emergence in the Quiet Sun
    Small bipolar magnetic features are observed to appear in the interior of individual granules in the quiet Sun, signaling the emergence of tiny magnetic loops...
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    Solar Abundance Corrections Derived Through Three-dimensional Magnetoconvection Simulations
    We explore the effect of the magnetic field when using realistic three-dimensional convection experiments to determine solar element abundances. By carrying out...
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    Solar Fe abundance and magnetic fields. Towards a consistent reference metallicity
    Aims: We investigate the impact on Fe abundance determination of including magnetic flux in series of 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of...