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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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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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