Bibcode
Kano, R.; Ishikawa, Ryohko; Winebarger, Amy R.; Auchère, Frédéric; Trujillo Bueno, J.; Narukage, Noriyuki; Kobayashi, Ken; Bando, Takamasa; Katsukawa, Yukio; Kubo, Masahito; Ishikawa, Shin-Nosuke; Giono, Gabriel; Hara, Hirohisa; Suematsu, Yoshinori; Shimizu, Toshifumi; Sakao, Taro; Tsuneta, Saku; Ichimoto, Kiyoshi; Goto, Motoshi; Cirtain, Jonathan W.; De Pontieu, Bart; Casini, Roberto; Manso Sainz, R.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Stepan, Jiri; Belluzzi, Luca; Carlsson, Mats
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #47, id.#101.07
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2016
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Description
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP) is a NASA
sounding-rocket experiment that was performed in White Sands in the US
on September 3, 2015. During its 5-minute ballistic flight, CLASP
successfully made the first spectro-polarimetric observation in the
Lyman-alpha line (121.57 nm) originating in the chromosphere and
transition region. Since the Lyman-alpha polarization is sensitive to
magnetic field of 10-100 G by the Hanle effect, we aim to infer the
magnetic field information in such upper solar atmosphere with this
experiment.The obtained CLASP data showed that the Lyman-alpha
scattering polarization is about a few percent in the wings and the
order of 0.1% in the core near the solar limb, as it had been
theoretically predicted, and that both polarization signals have a
conspicuous spatio-temporal variability. CLASP also observed another
upper-chromospheric line, Si III (120.65 nm), whose critical field
strength for the Hanle effect is 290 G, and showed a measurable
scattering polarization of a few % in this line. The polarization
properties of the Si III line could facilitate the interpretation of the
scattering polarization observed in the Lyman-alpha line.In this
presentation, we would like to show how the upper chromosphere and
transition region are seen in the polarization of these UV lines and
discuss the possible source of these complicated polarization signals.