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Sánchez Almeida, J.
Bibliographical reference
The solar wind nine conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 471, pp. 55-60 (1999).
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1999
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Description
The highly irregular nature of most photospheric magnetic fields is
analyzed here, trying to emphasize the connection between photospheric
fluctuations and those existing in the solar wind. It is discussed how
the magnetic flux conservation in sunspots demands penumbrae pervaded by
kilometer-wide irregularities. The diagnosis of this type of tiny scales
requires special tools having degrees of freedom for optically-thin
magnetic irregularities. One of such tools is introduced here, to be
subsequently applied to the quiet Sun. It turns out to reproduce the
observed Zeeman induced polarization, despite the fact that the
polarization is frequently very abnormal. The kind of irregular
atmosphere that the inversion technique favors seems to provide a
consistent picture of the quiet Sun magnetism.