Observation and modeling of anomalous CN polarization profiles produced by the molecular Paschen-Back effect in sunspots

Details Observation and modeling of anomalous CN polarization profiles produced by the molecular Paschen-Back effect in sunspots Observation and modeling of anomalous CN polarization profiles produced by the molecular Paschen-Back effect in sunspots

2005-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505076v1

Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) L57

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 3 figures, published in ApJ 623, L57 (2005)

Scientific paper

10.1086/430060

We report novel spectropolarimetric observations of sunspots carried out with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter (TIP) in a near-IR spectral region around 15410 A, which is known to contain two groups of prominent OH lines that show circular polarization signals of opposite polarity. Surrounding these well-known OH lines, we have discovered the presence of CN lines of the $\Delta v=1$ band which show anomalous polarization profiles. Although the Stokes V signals of the OH lines are antisymmetric and with a sizable amplitude, the CN lines show almost negligible circular polarization. On the contrary, the linear polarization signals turn out to be much stronger in the CN lines than in the OH lines. Interestingly, these CN lines present striking antisymmetric linear polarization profiles, which we are able to explain and model via the Paschen-Back effect theory for diatomic molecules. The presence of such peculiar CN lines in the same spectral region of the OH lines may be useful to improve our empirical knowledge of solar magnetic fields via the simultaneous observation and modeling of the transverse and longitudinal Zeeman effects in two different molecular species.

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