Bibcode
                                    
                            Westendorp Plaza, C.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Ruiz Cobo, B.; Martinez Pillet, V.; Lites, B. W.; Skumanich, A.
    Bibliographical reference
                                    1st Advances in Solar Physics Euroconference. Advances in Physics of Sunspots, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 118., Eds.: B. Schmieder, J.C. del Toro Iniesta, & M. Vazquez, p. 202.
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                        1997
            
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                            Description
                                    Preliminary results of the inversion of spectropolarimetric maps of a
sunspot observed with the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP) are
presented. The method used, Stokes Inversion based on Response functions
(SIR), does not assume constancy of the different parameters with depth,
thus enabling us to embark on an analysis of the information at
different layers in continuum optical depth (i.e. optical tomography),
of a sunspot's photosphere. Maps of the vector magnetic field and other
physical quantities like temperature or line-of-sight velocity at
several optical depths show a new and promising view of the structure of
a sunspot, casting light on long standing debates as those over
penumbral `corrugated' fields (spines), superpenumbral canopies, return
flux, or the nature of the Evershed effect.