Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005a%26a...439..323o&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 439, Issue 1, August III 2005, pp.323-334
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Sun: Faculae, Plages, Sun: Magnetic Fields, Methods: Numerical, Radiative Transfer
Scientific paper
A numerical simulation was performed to interpret high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of polar faculae on the Sun. A semi-empirical three-dimensional model of facula structures, controlled by several free parameters, was constructed. It consists of two components, the atmosphere within small-scale magnetic flux tubes and the exterior atmosphere. Multi-ray 1.5D radiative transfer calculations were performed along oblique rays passing through a highly inhomogeneous atmosphere of the simulation box. By the comparison of the properties of the calculated Stokes profiles from the synthetic faculae with the observed properties, a set of free parameters of the model (such as: size, number density of flux tubes, internal temperature stratification and magnetic field strength) was deduced, which satisfies the observational constraints. The hypothesis about solar faculae as a conglomerate of small-scale magnetic flux tubes is verified. The model reproduces all observed properties: the continuum contrast and its center-to-limb variation, the Stokes I and V profiles of Fe I and Fe II lines, the apparent magnetic field strengths, and the displacement towards the limb of the continuum intensity against the line-of-sight magnetograms.
Kneer Franz
Okunev Oleg V.
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