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Mechanisms of departure from lte
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2010
Abstract
This paper reviews the various population and depopulation mechanisms that establish the statistical equilibrium of atoms and shows how departures from LTE for level occupation numbers translate in non-LTE effects for spectral lines.
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