Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-31
Astron.Astrophys.466:1131,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, accepted in Astron. Astrophys., 2007
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20067017
We simultaneously observed the Stokes parameters of the photospheric iron line pair at 630.2 nm and the intensity profile of the chromospheric Ca II H line at 396.8 nm in a quiet Sun region at a heliocentric angle of 53 deg. We perform a statistical analysis of network and inter-network properties.The H-index is the integrated emission in a 0.1 nm band around the Ca core. We separate a non-magnetically, H_non, and a magnetically, H_mag, heated component from a non-heated component, H_co in the H-index. The average network and inter-network H-indices are equal to 12 and 10 pm, respectively. The emission in the network is correlated with the magnetic flux density, approaching a value of H 10 pm for vanishing flux. The inter-network magnetic field is dominated by weak field strengths with values down to 200 G and its mean absolute flux density is 11 Mx cm$^{-2}$. We find that a dominant fraction of the calcium emission caused by the heated atmosphere in the magnetic network, has non-magnetic origin (H_mag = 2pm, H_non = 3pm). Considering the effect of straylight, the contribution from an atmosphere with no temperature rise to the H-index (H_co = 6pm) is about half of the observed H-index in the inter-network. The H-index in the inter-network is not correlated to any property of the photospheric magnetic field, suggesting that magnetic flux concentrations have a negligible role in the chromospheric heating in this region. The height range of the thermal coupling between the photosphere and low/mid chromosphere increases in presence of magnetic field. In addition, we demonstrate that a poor signal-to-noise level in the Stokes profiles leads to a significant over-estimation of the magnetic field strength.
Beck C. A. R.
Bruls H. M. J. J.
Rezaei Rashid
Schlichenmaier Rolf
Schmidt Wolfram
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