Internetwork Horizontal Magnetic Fields in the Quiet Sun Chromosphere: Results from a Joint Hinode/VTT Study

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We present results from a joint Hinode/VTT campaign (May 2008). Spectropolarimetric data of a quiet Sun super-granular network cell at a heliocentric angle of 28° in the He I 10830 Å line were analyzed using an inversion code incorporating Hanle and Zeeman effects (HeLIx^+) to retrieve magnetic field strength and direction in the upper chromosphere. Simultaneously recorded Hinode SOT/SP data reveal the photospheric magnetic field morphology, clearly showing magnetic flux concentrations in the internetwork. The photospheric magnetic field maps are used to feed potential field extrapolations similar to the work by Schrijver & Title (2003). The extrapolated magnetic field structure is compared with the magnetic field configuration resulting from the He 10830 inversions. These inversions also reveal horizontal magnetic structures extending over a length of up to 20 Mm above the internetwork, indicative of the presence of a magnetic canopy. The photospheric magnetic flux concentrations in the internetwork are obviously not sufficiently strong to prevent the formation of a canopy at chromospheric heights.

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