Quiet Sun magnetic fields from simultaneous inversions of visible and infrared spectropolarimetric observations

Details Quiet Sun magnetic fields from simultaneous inversions of visible and infrared spectropolarimetric observations Quiet Sun magnetic fields from simultaneous inversions of visible and infrared spectropolarimetric observations

2006-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604381v1

Astrophys.J.646:1421-1435,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages and 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/505129

We study the quiet Sun magnetic fields using spectropolarimetric observations of the infrared and visible Fe I lines at 6301.5, 6302.5, 15648 and 15653 A. Magnetic field strengths and filling factors are inferred by the simultaneous fit of the observed Stokes profiles under the MISMA hypothesis. The observations cover an intra-network region at the solar disk center. We analyze 2280 Stokes profiles whose polarization signals are above noise in the two spectral ranges, which correspond to 40% of the field of view. Most of these profiles can be reproduced only with a model atmosphere including 3 magnetic components with very different field strengths, which indicates the co-existence of kG and sub-kG fields in our 1.5" resolution elements. We measure an unsigned magnetic flux density of 9.6 G considering the full field of view. Half of the pixels present magnetic fields with mixed polarities in the resolution element. The fraction of mixed polarities increases as the polarization weakens. We compute the probability density function of finding each magnetic field strength. It has a significant contribution of kG field strengths, which concentrates most of the observed magnetic flux and energy. This kG contribution has a preferred magnetic polarity, while the polarity of the weak fields is balanced.

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