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- Belyaev, Andrey K., et al.
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Inelastic silicon-hydrogen collision data for non-LTE applications in stellar atmospheres
- 2014
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 572, s. A103-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims. Inelastic processes in low-energy Si + H and Si+ + H- collisions are treated for the states from the ground state up to the ionic state, in order to provide rate coefficients needed for non-LTE modeling of Si in cool stellar atmospheres. Methods. Electronic molecular structure is determined using a recently proposed model approach based on an asymptotic method in combination with available ab initio potentials. Nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics are treated by means of a combination of multichannel formulas and the branching-probability-current method, based on the Landau-Zener model for nonadiabatic transition probabilities. Results. Cross sections and rate coefficients for inelastic processes in Si + H and Si+ + H- collisions for all transitions between 26 low-lying states plus the ionic state are calculated. It is shown that the highest rate coefficient values correspond to the excitation, de-excitation, ion-pair formation, and mutual neutralization processes involving the Si(3p4p D-3), Si(3p3d F-3), Si(3p4p D-1), Si(3p3d P-3), Si(3p4p S-1), and the ionic Si+ + H- states. These processes are likely to be important in non-LTE modeling.
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- Bergemann, Maria, et al.
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Solar oxygen abundance
- 2021
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 508:2, s. 2236-2253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Motivated by the controversy over the surface metallicity of the Sun, we present a re-analysis of the solar photospheric oxygen (O) abundance. New atomic models of O and Ni are used to perform non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) calculations with 1D hydrostatic (MARCS) and 3D hydrodynamical (Stagger and Bifrost) models. The Bifrost 3D MHD simulations are used to quantify the influence of the chromosphere. We compare the 3D NLTE line profiles with new high-resolution, R≈700000≈700000, spatially resolved spectra of the Sun obtained using the IAG FTS instrument. We find that the O I lines at 777 nm yield the abundance of log A(O) = 8.74 ± 0.03 dex, which depends on the choice of the H-impact collisional data and oscillator strengths. The forbidden [O I] line at 630 nm is less model dependent, as it forms nearly in LTE and is only weakly sensitive to convection. However, the oscillator strength for this transition is more uncertain than for the 777 nm lines. Modelled in 3D NLTE with the Ni I blend, the 630 nm line yields an abundance of log A(O) = 8.77 ± 0.05 dex. We compare our results with previous estimates in the literature and draw a conclusion on the most likely value of the solar photospheric O abundance, which we estimate at log A(O) = 8.75 ± 0.03 dex.
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