Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-05-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript file including figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Also available at f
Scientific paper
We study the formation of O I and OH spectral lines in three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the solar photosphere. The line source function of the O I 777 nm triplet is allowed to depart from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), within the two-level-atom approximation. Comparison with results from 1D models show that the 3D models alleviate, but do not remove, the discrepancy between the oxygen abundances reported from non-LTE work on the 777 nm triplet and from the [O I] 630 nm and OH lines. Results for the latter two could imply that the solar oxygen abundance is below 8.8 (lg(H) = 12). If this is confirmed, the discrepancy between theory and observation for the 777 nm triplet lines might fall within the range of errors in equivalent width measurements and f-values. The line source function of the 777 nm triplet in the 1.5D approximation is shown to differ insignificantly from the full 3D non-LTE result.
Kiselman Dan
Nordlund Åke
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