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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 443, Issue 1, Pages 293-296Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053412
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line : formation; infrared : stars; stars : early-type
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The near-IR He I 10 830 angstrom transition is a highly sensitive diagnostic for non-LTE effects in astrophysical plasmas. So far, non-LTE line-formation computations have failed to quantitatively reproduce observations of this line in the entire range of early-A to late-O main sequence stars. It is shown that the non-LTE modelling was insufficient, for the most part, either because of inaccurate photoionization cross-sections for the 2s S-3 state or because of neglecting line blocking. New calculations based on state-of-the-art atomic data give excellent agreement with observation for the He I 10 830 angstrom feature, while profiles of the He. lines in the visual are retained.
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