Photospheric dynamics and the NLTE formation of the solar K I 769.9 NM line

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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K Lines, Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Photosphere, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Spectra, Radiative Transfer, Resonance Lines, Solar Granulation, Solar Oscillations

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Earlier analyses of the K I 769.9 nm resonance line are extended as a diagnostic of dynamical phenomena in the solar photosphere by evaluating the effects of dynamical variations on departures from LTE in the K I spectrum. Representative models for the solar granulation and the solar five-minute oscillation are used to estimate dynamical NLTE departures in the K I populations and to compare these to standarad plane-parallel NLTE modeling. Various NLTE mechanisms operate together in K I simultaneously with fortuitous cancellations; the resulting population departures vary less than 30 percent between dynamical perturbations. These results validate the assumption of departure invariance, i.e., adopting NLTE population departure coefficients from a standard static model for use in dynamical perturbations, as a good first-order approximation in K I 769.9 nm formation studies.

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