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Do We Really Know What the Actual Chromospheric Heating Requirements Are?

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By means of multi-dimensional radiative transfer calculations we show that the plane-parallel approximation begins to fail to give proper account of the energetic role of spectral lines when the stellar atmospheric inhomogeneities have horizontal structural lengths smaller than 1000 km.

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  1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

    Javier Trujillo Bueno

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 561, D-6900, Heidelberg, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Peter Ulmschneider

  2. The Mathematical Institute North Haugh, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS, Great Britain

    Eric R. Priest

  3. E. Fermi Institute and Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5640 S Ellis Ave., 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

    Robert Rosner

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Bueno, J.T. (1991). Do We Really Know What the Actual Chromospheric Heating Requirements Are?. In: Ulmschneider, P., Priest, E.R., Rosner, R. (eds) Mechanisms of Chromospheric and Coronal Heating. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87455-0_14

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