Bibcode
Domínguez Cerdeña, I.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.; Kneer, F.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Polarization 4, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 358, Proceedings of the conference held 19-23 September, 2005, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Edited by R. Casini and B. W. Lites, p.88
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2006
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Description
We studied the quiet-Sun magnetic fields interpreting
spectro-polarimetric observations of infrared and visible spectral
lines. Magnetic field strengths and filling factors were inferred by the
simultaneous inversion of Stokes profiles of the Fe I lines at 6301.5,
6302.5, 15648, and 15653 Å under the MISMA hypothesis. They cover
a solar intra-network region at disk center. We analyzed Stokes profiles
with signals above noise in both spectral ranges, which correspond to
40% of the field of view. Most of these 2280 profiles could only be
inverted with a model including 3 magnetic components with very
different field strengths, which indicates the co-existence of kG and
sub-kG fields. We measured a total unsigned magnetic flux density of 9.6
G over the whole field of view. For half of the pixels the magnetic
field has opposite polarities within the resolution element. We computed
the probability density function of finding each magnetic field
strength. It has an important contribution of kG field strengths, which
concentrates most of the magnetic flux and energy. This kG contribution
has a preferred magnetic polarity while the weak fields are balanced.