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Viticchiè, B.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.; Del Moro, D.; Berrilli, F.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Polarization 6. Proceedings of a conference held in Maui, Hawaii, USA on May 30 to June 4, 2010. Edited by J. R. Kuhn, D. M. Harrington, H. Lin, S. V. Berdyugina, J. Trujillo-Bueno, S. L. Keil, and T. Rimmele. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011., p.127
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2011
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Description
Stokes profiles observed in the quiet photosphere by HINODE SOT/SP
present very complex shapes. These are indicative of unresolved magnetic
structures and/or gradients along the line of sight in HINODE's pixels
which have linear dimension of ˜0.15". We present the first
interpretation of the Stokes profile asymmetries measured in the 630 nm
Fe I lines by SOT/SP in both quiet Sun
internetwork (IN) and network. The inversion is carried out under the
hypothesis of MIcro-Structured Magnetized Atmosphere (MISMA) which can
account for sub-pixel structuring of magnetic fields. The MISMA code is
able to reproduce the observed asymmetries in a very satisfactory way.
Moreover, 25% of inverted profiles present asymmetries that are
interpreted as produced by regions in which mixed polarities are
present. kG field strengths are found in both network and internetwork
regions. In the internetwork both kG fields and hG fields are found. Our
analysis constrains the magnetic field of only 4.5% of the analyzed
photosphere. The rest of the plasma can be thought to be filled by weak
fields not contributing to the detected polarization signals.