Bibcode
Viavattene, G.; Berrilli, F.; Collados, M.; Del Moro, D.; Giovannelli, L.; Ruiz Cobo, B.; Zuccarello, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 956, Issue 1, article id. 012006 (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
1
2018
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
Solar spectro-polarimetry is a powerful tool to investigate the physical
processes occurring in the solar atmosphere. The different states of
polarization and wavelengths have in fact encoded the information about
the thermodynamic state of the solar plasma and the interacting magnetic
field. In particular, the radiative transfer theory allows us to invert
the spectro-polarimetric data to obtain the physical parameters of the
different atmospheric layers and, in particular, of the photosphere. In
this work, we present a comparison between two methods used to analyze
spectro-polarimetric data: the classical Center of Gravity method in the
weak field approximation and an inversion code that solves numerically
the radiative transfer equation. The Center of Gravity method returns
reliable values for the magnetic field and for the line-of-sight
velocity in those regions where the weak field approximation is valid
(field strength below 400 G), while the inversion code is able to return
the stratification of many physical parameters in the layers where the
spectral line used for the inversion is formed.