Bibcode
Socas-Navarro, H.; de la Cruz Rodríguez, J.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Trujillo Bueno, J.; Ruiz Cobo, B.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 577, id.A7, 10 pp.
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2015
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Citations
154
Refereed citations
142
Description
With the advent of a new generation of solar telescopes and
instrumentation, interpreting chromospheric observations (in particular,
spectropolarimetry) requires new, suitable diagnostic tools. This paper
describes a new code, NICOLE, that has been designed for Stokes non-LTE
radiative transfer, for synthesis and inversion of spectral lines and
Zeeman-induced polarization profiles, spanning a wide range of
atmospheric heights from the photosphere to the chromosphere. The code
features a number of unique features and capabilities and has been built
from scratch with a powerful parallelization scheme that makes it
suitable for application on massive datasets using large supercomputers.
The source code is written entirely in Fortran 90/2003 and complies
strictly with the ANSI standards to ensure maximum compatibility and
portability. It is being publicly released, with the idea of
facilitating future branching by other groups to augment its
capabilities.
The source code is currently hosted at the following repository: http://https://github.com/hsocasnavarro/NICOLE
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