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Aims. We evaluate non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (non-LTE) line formation for the two ions of iron and check the ionization equilibrium between Fe i and Fe ii in model atmospheres of the cool reference stars based on the best available complete model atom for neutral and singly-ionized iron.
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Mashonkina et al. (2011) studied this question.
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