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Fig. 3.
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Deviations from Maxwellian illustrated by ratios f2(u, τ)/fM(u) at various optical depths across the atmosphere using the same convention as in Fig. 2. It shows the “overpopulation” of f2 at large u’s. This very information cannot be accessed to, using standard non-LTE approaches.
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