Bibcode
DOI
Trujillo Bueno, J.; Merenda, L.; Centeno, R.; Collados, M.; Landi Degl'Innocenti, E.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 619, Issue 2, pp. L191-L194.
Fecha de publicación:
2
2005
Revista
Número de citas
92
Número de citas referidas
61
Descripción
An attractive diagnostic tool for investigating the magnetism of the
solar chromosphere is the observation and theoretical modeling of the
Hanle and Zeeman effects in spicules, as shown in this Letter for the
first time. Here we report on spectropolarimetric observations of solar
chromospheric spicules in the He I λ10830 multiplet and on their
theoretical modeling accounting for radiative transfer effects. We find
that the magnetic field in the observed (quiet-Sun) spicular material at
a height of about 2000 km above the visible solar surface has a strength
of the order of 10 G and is inclined by approximately 35deg
with respect to the local vertical direction. Our empirical finding
based on full Stokes vector spectropolarimetry should be taken into
account in future magnetohydrodynamical simulations of spicules.