A PHASE-MODULATED Michelson interferometer1 and a helium cooled Rollin2 photoconductive far infrared detector, at the focus of a 35 cm aperture Cassegrain...
Line Asymmetries and the Microstructure of Photospheric Magnetic Fields
A systematic structuring of magnetic fields over scales much smaller than the mean free path of photospheric photons may be responsible for the observed...
Line formation in solar granulation. I. Fe line shapes, shifts and asymmetries
Realistic ab-initio 3D, radiative-hydrodynamical convection simulations of the solar granulation have been applied to Fe i and Fe ii line formation. In contrast...
Line formation in solar granulation. IV. [O I], O I and OH lines and the photospheric O abundance
The solar photospheric oxygen abundance has been determined from [O I], O I, OH vibration-rotation and OH pure rotation lines by means of a realistic time...
Line formation in solar granulation. VI. [C I], C I, CH and C2 lines and the photospheric C abundance
The solar photospheric carbon abundance has been determined from [C I], C I, CH vibration-rotation, CH A-X electronic and C2 Swan electronic lines by means of a...
Line Formation Theory for the Multiterm Atom with Hyperfine Structure in a Magnetic Field
Within the framework of the quantum theory of polarized line formation, in the limit of complete frequency redistribution and of the collisionless regime, we...
Line Shape Effects on Intensity Measurements of Solar Features: Brightness Correction to SOHO MDI Continuum Images
Continuum intensity observations obtained with the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on board the SOHO mission provide long time series of filtergrams that are...
Line-of-sight velocity distributions of elliptical galaxies from collisionless mergers
We analyse the skewness of the line-of-sight velocity distributions in model elliptical galaxies built through collisionless galaxy mergers. We build the models...