A Statistical Inference Method for Interpreting the CLASP Observations

J. Štěpán, J. Trujillo Bueno, L. Belluzzi, A. Asensio Ramos, R. Manso Sainz, T. Del Pino Alemán, R. Casini, R. Kano, A. Winebarger, F. Auchere, R. Ishikawa, N. Narukage, K. Kobayashi, T. Bando, Y. Katsukawa, M. Kubo, S. Ishikawa, G. Giono, H. Hara, Y. SuematsuT. Shimizu, T. Sakao, S. Tsuneta, K. Ichimoto, J. Cirtain, P. Champey, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson

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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 languageEnglish
Article number48
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume865
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 20 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Sun: chromosphere
  • Sun: transition region
  • methods: statistical
  • polarization
  • radiative transfer

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