Abstract
On 2015 September 3, the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP) successfully measured the linear polarization produced by scattering processes in the hydrogen Lyα line of the solar disk radiation, revealing conspicuous spatial variations in the Q/I and U/I signals. Via the Hanle effect, the line-center Q/I and U/I amplitudes encode information on the magnetic field of the chromosphere-corona transition region, but they are also sensitive to the three-dimensional structure of this corrugated interface region. With the help of a simple line-formation model, here we propose a statistical inference method for interpreting the Lyα line-center polarization observed by CLASP.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 48 |
| Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
| Volume | 865 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 20 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Sun: chromosphere
- Sun: transition region
- methods: statistical
- polarization
- radiative transfer