Vector Tomography Inversion for the 3D Coronal Magnetic Field Based on CoMP data

Details Vector Tomography Inversion for the 3D Coronal Magnetic Field Based on CoMP data Vector Tomography Inversion for the 3D Coronal Magnetic Field Based on CoMP data

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsh43b1948k&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SH43B-1948

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

[7509] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Corona, [7513] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Coronal Mass Ejections, [7524] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Magnetic Fields

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Magnetic fields in the solar corona dominates the gas pressure and therefore determine the static and dynamic properties of the corona. Direct measurement of the coronal magnetic field is one of the most challenging problems in observational solar astronomy and recently a significant progress has been achieved here with deployment of the HAO Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP). The instrument provides polarization measurements of Fe XIII 10747 A forbidden line emission. The observed polarization depends on magnetic field through the Hanle and Zeeman effects. However, because the coronal measurements are integrated over line-of-site (LOS), it is impossible to derive the configuration of the coronal magnetic field from a single observation (from a single viewing direction). The vector tomography techniques based on measurements from several viewing directions has the potential to resolve the 3D coronal magnetic field structure over LOS. Because of the non-linear character of the Hanle effect, the reconstruction result based on such data is not straightforward and depends on the particular coronal field configuration. Therefore we study here what is the sensitivity of the vector tomographic inversion to sophisticated (MHD) coronal magnetic field models. For several important cases of magnetic field configuration, it has been found that even just Stokes-Q and -U data (supplied with 3D coronal density and temperature) can be used in vector tomography to provide a realistic 3D coronal magnetic field configuration. This vector tomograpic technique is applied to CoMP data.

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