Realistic ab-initio 3D, radiative-hydrodynamical convection simulations of the solar granulation have been ap- plied to Fei and Feii line formation. In contrast to classical analyses based on hydrostatic 1D model atmospheres the pro- cedure contains no adjustable free parameters but the treatment of the numerical viscosity in the construction of the 3D, time- dependent, inhomogeneous model atmosphere and the elemen- tal abundance in the 3D spectral synthesis. However, the nu- merical viscosity is introduced purely for numerical stability purposes and is determined from standard hydrodynamical test cases with no adjustments allowed to improve the agreement with the observational constraints from the solar granulation. The non-thermal line broadening is mainly provided by the Doppler shifts arising from the convective flows in the solar photosphere and the solar oscillations. The almost perfect agree- ment between the predicted temporally and spatially averaged line profiles for weak Fe lines with the observed profiles and the absence of trends in derived abundances with line strengths, seem to imply that the micro- and macroturbulence concepts are obsolete in these 3D analyses. Furthermore, the theoretical line asymmetries and shifts show a very satisfactory agreement with observations with an accuracy of typically 50-100 ms 1 on an absolute velocity scale. The remaining minor discrep- ancies point to how the convection simulations can be refined further.
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