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We proposed a method for diagnostics of the horizontal velocity field based on 2D observations at the center of the solar disk with high spatial and temporal resolution. The method consists in semiempirical modeling of the solar atmosphere by solving the inverse radiative transfer problem and subsequent obtaining horizontal velocities by solution of the corresponding hydrodynamic equations. We investigated the diagnostic capabilities of the line Ba II λ 455.403 nm (considering hyperfine structure and isotope splitting) for studying the horizontal velocity field of the nonhomogeneous solar atmosphere.
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Original Russian Text © M.I. Stodilka, 2016, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2016, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 63–74.
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Stodilka, M.I. Diagnostics of horizontal velocity field in the solar atmosphere: Line Ba II λ 455.403 nm. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 32, 145–152 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591316030041
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