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Ishikawa, R.; Trujillo Bueno, J.; Uitenbroek, H.; Kubo, M.; Tsuneta, S.; Goto, M.; Kano, R.; Narukage, N.; Bando, T.; Katsukawa, Y.; Ishikawa, S.; Giono, G.; Suematsu, Y.; Hara, H.; Shimizu, T.; Sakao, T.; Winebarger, A.; Kobayashi, K.; Cirtain, J.; Champey, P.; Auchère, F.; Štěpán, J.; Belluzzi, L.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Manso Sainz, R.; De Pontieu, B.; Ichimoto, K.; Carlsson, M.; Casini, R.
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 841, Issue 1, article id. 31, 17 pp. (2017).
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The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter is a sounding rocket
experiment that has provided the first successful measurement of the
linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen
Lyα line (121.57 nm) radiation of the solar disk. In this paper,
we report that the Si iii line at 120.65 nm also shows scattering
polarization and we compare the scattering polarization signals observed
in the Lyα and Si iii lines in order to search for observational
signatures of the Hanle effect. We focus on four selected bright
structures and investigate how the U/I spatial variations vary between
the Lyα wing, the Lyα core, and the Si iii line as a
function of the total unsigned photospheric magnetic flux estimated from
Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager
observations. In an internetwork region, the Lyα core shows an
antisymmetric spatial variation across the selected bright structure,
but it does not show it in other more magnetized regions. In the Si iii
line, the spatial variation of U/I deviates from the above-mentioned
antisymmetric shape as the total unsigned photospheric magnetic flux
increases. A plausible explanation of this difference is the operation
of the Hanle effect. We argue that diagnostic techniques based on the
scattering polarization observed simultaneously in two spectral lines
with very different sensitivities to the Hanle effect, like Lyα
and Si iii, are of great potential interest for exploring the magnetism
of the upper solar chromosphere and transition region.
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