Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Apr 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009iaus..259..211s&link_type=abstract
Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium,
Statistics
Applications
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Sun: Magnetic Fields, Sun: Photosphere, Scattering, Turbulence, Atomic Processes, Line: Formation, Techniques: Polarimetric
Scientific paper
Applications of the Hanle effect have revealed the existence of vast amounts of “hidden“ magnetic flux in the solar photosphere, which remains invisible to the Zeeman effect due to cancellations inside each spatial resolution element of the opposite-polarity contributions from this small-scale, tangled field. The Hanle effect is a coherency phenomenon that represents the magnetic modification of the linearly polarized spectrum of the Sun that is formed by coherent scattering processes. This so-called “Second Solar Spectrum” is as richly structured as the ordinary intensity spectrum, but the spectral structures look completely different and have different physical origins. One of the new diagnostic uses of this novel spectrum is to explore the magnetic field in previously inaccessible parameter domains. The earlier view that most of the magnetic flux in the photosphere is in the form of intermittent kG flux tubes with tiny filling factors has thereby been shattered. The whole photospheric volume instead appears to be seething with intermediately strong fields, of order 100G, of significance for the overall energy balance of the solar atmosphere. According to the new paradigm the field behaves like a fractal with a high degree of self-similarity between the different scales. The magnetic structuring is expected to continue down to the 10m scale, 4 orders of magnitude below the current spatial resolution limit.
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