Astrophysical: Radiative transfer

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    The effect of continuum scattering processes on spectral line formation
    The effect of scattering processes in the continuum on the formation of spectral lines in a static atmosphere with an arbitrary distribution of the internal...
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    The Effect of Strong Scattering Processes in the Continuum on the Stellar Emergent Energy Distribution
    The numerical solution of the idealized, but self-consistent, LTE atmosphere problem posed by the authors has been used to introduce the effect of multiple...
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    The Effects of Three-dimensional Radiative Transfer on the Resonance Polarization of the Ca I 4227 Å Line
    The sizable linear polarization signals produced by the scattering of anisotropic radiation in the core of the Ca I 4227 Å line constitute an important...
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    The First Billion Years project: proto-galaxies reionizing the Universe
    The contribution of stars in galaxies to cosmic reionization depends on the star formation history in the Universe, the abundance of galaxies during...
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    The First Billion Years project: the escape fraction of ionizing photons in the epoch of reionization
    Protogalaxies forming in low-mass dark matter haloes are thought to provide the majority of ionizing photons needed to reionize the Universe, due to their high...
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    The GALAH Survey: non-LTE departure coefficients for large spectroscopic surveys
    Massive sets of stellar spectroscopic observations are rapidly becoming available and these can be used to determine the chemical composition and evolution of...
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    The Hanle and Zeeman Effects in Solar Spicules: A Novel Diagnostic Window on Chromospheric Magnetism
    An attractive diagnostic tool for investigating the magnetism of the solar chromosphere is the observation and theoretical modeling of the Hanle and Zeeman...
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    The Hanle and Zeeman Polarization Signals of the Solar Ca II 8542 Å Line
    We highlight the main results of a three-dimensional (3D) multilevel radiative transfer investigation about the solar disk-center polarization of the Ca ii 8542...
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    The Hanle Effect of Lyα in a Magnetohydrodynamic Model of the Solar Transition Region
    In order to understand the heating of the solar corona it is crucial to obtain empirical information on the magnetic field in its lower boundary (the transition...