Bibcode
Orozco Suárez, David; Bellot Rubio, Luis R.; Del Toro Iniesta, Jose Carlos; Tsuneta, Saku; Lites, Bruce; Ichimoto, Kiyoshi; Katsukawa, Yukio; Nagata, Shin'ichi; Shimizu, Toshifumi; Shine, Richard A.; Suematsu, Yoshinori; Tarbell, Theodore D.; Title, Alan M.
Bibliographical reference
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.59, No.SP3, pp.S837--S844
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2007
Citations
76
Refereed citations
62
Description
In this paper we propose an inversion strategy for the analysis of
spectropolarimetric measurements taken by Hinode in the quiet Sun. The
Spectro-Polarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode records
the Stokes spectra of the FeI line pair at 630.2nm with unprecendented
angular resolution, high spectral resolution, and high sensitivity. We
discuss the need to consider a local stray-light contamination to
account for the effects of telescope diffraction. The strategy is
applied to observations of a wide quiet Sun area at disk center. Using
these data we examine the influence of noise and initial guess models in
the inversion results. Our analysis yields the distributions of magnetic
field strengths and stray-light factors. They show that quiet Sun
internetwork regions consist mainly of hG fields with stray-light
contamination of about 0.8.