Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar Modern Facilities -- Advanced Solar Science, eds. F. Kneer, K.G. Puschmann, D. Wittmann, University Press G\"ottingen, i
Scientific paper
Based on the Meso-Structured Magnetic Atmosphere (MESMA) approximation, recently introduced by Carroll & Kopf (2007), we present first results of an inversion of spectropolarimetric observations obtained from solar internetwork regions. To cope with the inherent complexity of the mostly unresolved magnetic field in the solar photosphere the MESMA approach provides a statistical description of the underlying atmosphere in terms of a random Markov field. This statistical model allows us to derive a stochastic transfer equation for polarized light. The stochastic transfer equation explicitly accounts for the spatial correlation -- the characteristic length scale -- of the underlying magnetic and non-magnetic structures. We use this new diagnostic parameter in an inversion approach to demonstrate that the magnetic flux structures in the solar internetwork possess a finite correlation length which is not compatible with the classical flux tube picture.
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