Astrophysical: Radiative transfer

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    A synthetic stellar polarization atlas from 400 to 1000 nm
    Context: With the development of new polarimeters for large telescopes, the spectro-polarimetric study of astrophysical bodies is becoming feasible and, indeed...
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    Active Region Filaments Might Harbor Weak Magnetic Fields
    Recent spectropolarimetric observations of active region filaments have revealed polarization profiles with signatures typical of the strong field Zeeman regime...
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    Advanced Forward Modeling and Inversion of Stokes Profiles Resulting from the Joint Action of the Hanle and Zeeman Effects
    A big challenge in solar and stellar physics in the coming years will be to decipher the magnetism of the solar outer atmosphere (chromosphere and corona) along...
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    ALMA high spatial resolution observations of the dense molecular region of NGC 6302
    Context. The mechanism behind the shaping of bipolar planetary nebulae is still poorly understood. It is becoming increasingly clear that the main agents must...
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    An Hermitian Method for the Solution of Polarized Radiative Transfer Problems
    Spectral synthesis calculations in stellar (magnetized) atmospheres are based on the solution of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for polarized light. The...
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    An implicit integral method to solve selected radiative transfer problems. 2: LTE stellar atmosphere models
    The implicit intergral method that we have already introduced in a previous paper, together with its application to the non-Local Thermal Equilibrium (non-LTE)...
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    An implicit integral method to solve selected radiative transfer problems. 3: Factorization versus linearization
    In view of more general applications, we have developed a new approach to render explicit the temperature both in the source function of the radiative transfer...
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    An implicit integral method to solve selected radiative transfer problems. I - Non-LTE line formation
    In this paper we present a new method to solve those radiative transfer problems where the scattering term in the source function, i.e., the frequency...
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    An Implicit Integral Method to Solve Selected Radiative Transfer Problems. IV. The Case of Spherical Geometry
    In the previous papers of this series, we introduced the implicit integral method (IIM) to solve those radiative transfer (RT) problems in which the source...