Bibcode
Socas-Navarro, H.; Trujillo Bueno, J.; Ruiz Cobo, B.
Referencia bibliográfica
Science, Vol. 288, No. 5470, p. 1398.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2000
Revista
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0
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Descripción
We present time-series spectropolarimetric observations of sunspots in
the Ca II infrared triplet lines, which show a periodic occurrence of
anomalous, asymmetric, circular polarization profiles in the umbral
chromosphere. The profiles may be caused by the periodic development of
an unresolved atmospheric component in a downward flowing magnetized
environment. This active component with upward directed velocities as
high as 10 kilometers per second is connected to the umbral flash (UF)
phenomenon. We can explain the observations with a semiempirical model
of the chromospheric oscillation and of the sunspot magnetized
atmospheric plasma during a UF event.