New light on stellar abundance analyses: Departures from LTE and homogeneity.
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2005
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Asplund, Martin
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Annual Reviews Inc
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The information on the chemical compositions of stars encoded in their spectra plays a central role in contemporary astrophysics. Stellar element abundances are, however, not observed: to decipher the spectral fingerprints in terms of abundances requires
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Keywords: Convection; Galactic chemical evolution; Radiative transfer; Stellar abundances; Stellar atmospheres; Stellar nucleosynthesis
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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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