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Bommier, V.; Rayrole, J.; Eff-Darwich, A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 435, Issue 3, June I 2005, pp.1115-1122
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2005
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Description
We present a vector magnetic field map obtained on 7 December 2003,
below and around a filament located not so far from the active region
NOAA 517, whose one spot is also found on the map of 240× 340
arcsec. This region was itself located near the disk center, so that the
longitudinal (resp. transverse) field is nearly the vertical (resp.
horizontal) one. The THEMIS telescope was used in its
spectropolarimetric multiline mode MTR ("MulTiRaies"). The noise level
is 5-10 Gauss in the longitudinal field and 50-100 Gauss in the
transverse field, while the pixel size is 0.45 arcsec. Fundamental
ambiguity is not solved, and the atmosphere is assumed to be
homogeneous. The magnetic field derivation method described in this
paper was validated on eight test points submitted to the UNNOFIT
inversion code, and the results are found in agreement within 14%
discrepancy. Two main results appear on the map: (i) a strong spatial
correlation between the longitudinal and transverse field resulting in
an inclined field vector (making a most probable angle of 60° or
120° with the line-of-sight in the filament region); and (ii)
homogeneity of the field direction (inclination and azimuth) in the
filament region. Parasitic polarities were also detected: first those
located at the filament feet, as theoretically expected, on the one
hand; and then weak opposite polarity regular patterns that appear
between the network field (strong field at the frontiers of
supergranules), on the other. The exact superimposition of the magnetic
field map derived from the Fe I 6302.5 Å line and of the Hα
map, which enabled association of the parasitic polarities with the
filament feet, was possible because these two maps were simultaneously
obtained, thanks to a unique facility available in the multiline mode of
THEMIS.