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Analysis of the Transverse Magnetic Field in Solar Active Regions by the Huairou Vector Magnetograph
In this paper, we analyse Stokes parameters I,Q,U of the Fei 5324.19Å line, calculated with radiative transfer equations in a solar model atmosphere with a magnetic field, and the influence of magneto-optical effects on the measurement of transverse magnetic field. It is found that the measurement of azimuthal angles of the transverse field is obviously disturbed by the magneto-optical effects. We compare with the observational Stokes images Q and U at different wavelengths from the center to the wing of the Fei 5324.19Å line obtained at Huairou Solar Observing Station of Beijing Astronomical Observatory to confirm azimuthal angles of the transverse field, because the insignificant influence of magneto-optical effects in the far wing of the line was found by the theoretical analysis. The accuracy of azimuthal angles of the transverse field measured near the Fei 5324.19Å line center has been estimated. 相似文献
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This paper looks at three aspects of numerical methods for solving polarized radiative transfer problems associated with spectral line formation in the presence of a magnetic field. First we prove Murphy's law for Stokes evolution operators which is the basis of the efficient algorithm used in the SPSR software package to compute the Stokes line depression contribution functions. Then we use a two-stream model to explain the efficacy of the field-free method in which the non-LTE line source function in a uniform magnetic field is approximated by the source function neglecting the magnetic field. Finally we introduce a totally new and computationally efficient approach to solving non-LTE problems based on a method of sparsely representing integral operators using wavelets. As an illustration, the wavelet method is used to solve the source function integral equation for a two-level atomic model in a finite atmosphere with coherent scattering, ignoring polarization. 相似文献
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B. Ruiz Cobo J. C. Del Toro Iniesta M. Collados J. Sánchez Almeida 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1990,170(1-2):113-116
The diagnostic method proposed by Landi Degl'Innocenti and Landolfi (1982), based on the observation of circular polarization, has been generalized to derive the thermodynamic properties of unresolved magnetic elements in the solar atmosphere. The final aim is to derive the height dependence of several parameters of the flux tube atmosphere (such as temperature, magnetic field and velocity distributions, macroturbulence and filling factor). We have used a perturbation method based on the concept of response functions for the Stokes profiles introduced by Landi Degl'Innocenti and Landi Degl'Innocenti (1977). We present here the preliminary results of invertingV-profiles by an iterative standard least-squares technique, which allows to find the magnetic 1-D atmosphere consistent with simulated data.Paper presented at the 11th European Regional Astronomical Meetings of the IAU on New Windows to the Universe, held 3–8 July, 1989, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. 相似文献
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A simple method is proposed to infer the vector magnetic field at the surface of the Sun from Stokes profiles. This is based on the assumption that the variations of thermodynamical and magnetic field parameters with depth near the surface are so small that the displacements of the wavelengths at which the Stokes profiles reach their extrema can be ignored. And hence the polarized radiative transfer equations are greatly reduced to a set of non-linear equations with vector magnetic field parameters (, , ) which can be solved by a numerical iteration method. By fitting the synthetic profiles, it is shown that this proposed method can produce information on the vector field at the surface. It is also used to revise the observed profiles and it is found that the observed sunspot has the magnetic field structure of the fan model with the lines of magnetic field twisted. 相似文献
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The polarization-free (POF) approximation (Trujillo Bueno and Landi Degl'Innocenti, 1996) is capable of accounting for the approximate influence of the magnetic field on the statistical equilibrium, without actually solving the full Stokes vector radiative transfer equation. The method introduces the Zeeman splitting or broadening of the line absorption profile I in the scalar radiative transfer equation, but the coupling between Stokes I and the other Stokes parameters is neglected. The expected influence of the magnetic field is largest for strongly-split strong lines and the effect is greatly enhanced by gradients in the magnetic field strength. Formally the interaction with the other Stokes parameters may not be neglected for strongly-split strong lines, but it turns out that the error in Stokes I obtained through the POF approximation to a large extent cancels the neglect of interaction with the other Stokes parameters, so that the resulting line source functions and line opacities are more accurate than those obtained with the field-free approach. Although its merits have so far only been tested for a two-level atom, we apply the POF approximation to multi-level non-LTE radiative transfer problems on the premise that there is no essential difference between these two cases. Final verification of its validity in multi-level cases still awaits the completion of a non-LTE Stokes vector transfer code.For two realistic multi-level cases (CaII and MgI in the solar atmosphere) it is demonstrated that the POF method leads to small changes, with respect to the field-free method, in the line source functions and emergent Stokes vector profiles (much smaller than for a two-level atom). Real atoms are dominated by strong ultraviolet lines (only weakly split) and continua, and most lines with large magnetic splitting (in the red and the infrared) are at higher excitation energies, i.e. they are relatively weak and unable to produce significant changes in the statistical equilibrium. We find that it is generally unpredictable by how much the POF results will differ from the field-free results, so that it is nearly always necessary to confirm predictions by actual computations.The POF approximation provides more reliable results than the field-free approximation without significantly complicating the radiative transfer problem, i.e. without solving any extra equations and without excessive computational resource requirements, so that it is to be preferred over the field-free approximation. 相似文献
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Spectro-polarimetric observations at 2231 nm were made of NOAA 10008 near the west solar limb on 29 June 2002 using the National Solar Observatory McMath–Pierce Telescope at Kitt Peak and the California State University Northridge – National Solar Observatory infrared camera. Scans of spectra in both Stokes I and Stokes V were collected; the intensity spectra were processed to remove strong telluric absorption lines, and the Stokes V umbral spectra were corrected for instrumental polarization. The sunspot temperature is computed using the continuum contrast and umbral temperatures down to about 3700 K are observed. A strong Tii line at 2231.0 nm is used to probe the magnetic and velocity fields in the spot umbra and penumbra. Measurements of the Tii equivalent width versus plasma temperature in the sunspot agree with model predictions. Zeeman splitting measurements of the Stokes I and Stokes V profiles show magnetic fields up to 3300 G in the umbra, and a dependence of the magnetic field on the plasma temperature similar to that which was seen using Fei 1565 nm observations of the same spot two days earlier. The umbral Doppler velocity measurements are averaged in 16 azimuthal bins, and no radial flows are revealed to a limit of ±200 m s–1. A Stokes V magnetogram shows a reversal of the line-of-sight magnetic component between the limb and disk center sides of the penumbra. Because the Tii line is weak in the penumbra, individual spectra are averaged in azimuthal bins over the entire penumbral radial extent. The averaged Stokes V spectra show a magnetic reversal as a function of sunspot azimuthal angle. The mean penumbral magnetic field as measured with the Stokes V Zeeman component splitting is 1400 G. Several weak spectral lines are observed in the sunspot and the variation of the equivalent width versus temperature for four lines is examined. If these lines are from molecules, it is possible that lines at 2230.67, 2230.77, and 2231.70 nm originate from OH, while the line at 2232.21 nm may originate from CN. 相似文献
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A magnetopause that separates two regimes of different flow, additional to the separation of a magnetic field from a field-free plasma, gives rise to the formation of asymmetric Stokes profiles. Using a simple two-layer model atmosphere, where one layer comprises a magnetic field, the other being field-free, it is shown by analytical derivation that a wide variety of Stokes V profiles can be produced, having amplitude asymmetries a in the range –a. These include two-humped V profiles, which have two lobes of equal sign. For the most simple models, the asymmetry depends on the ratio of continuum intensity to the Planck radiation intensity of the magnetic layer at the wavelength of the spectral line under consideration, and on the line depth. Two-humped profiles (|a|>1) require the temperature of the magnetic layer to surpass the temperature of the line-core forming region, implying a temperature inversion, so that the V profile is partially in emission. The confrontation of this formation scenario with properties of observed one-lobe profiles of quiet-Sun network regions is inconclusive due to insufficient spatial resolution and lack of a sufficient sample of simultaneously recorded Stokes spectral lines of varying line depths. It seems, however, to be in good agreement with the observed frequent occurrence of abnormal V profiles of the very strong Nai D
2 and D
2 spectral line. A possible observational verification for the present formation scenario of abnormal Stokes V profiles and a novel method of Stokes inversion are discussed. 相似文献
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The past evolution of the rotation of Venus has been studied by a numerical integration method using the hypothesis that only solar tidal torques and core-mantle coupling have been active since formation. It is found quite conceivable that Venus had originally a rotation similar to the other planets and has evolved in 4.5×109 years from a rapid and direct rotation (12-hour spin period and nearly zero obliquity) to the present slow retrograde one.While the solid tidal torque may be quite efficient in despinning the planet, a thermally driven atmospheric tidal torque has the capability to drive the obliquity from 0° towards 180° and to stabilize the spin axis in the latter position. The effect of a liquid core is discussed and it is shown that core-mantle friction hastens the latter part of the evolution and makes even stronger the state of equilibrium at 180°. The model assumes a nearly stable balance between solid and atmospheric tides at the current rotation rate interpreting the present 243 day spin period as being very close to the limiting value.A large family of solutions allowing for the evolution, in a few billions years, of a rapid prograde rotation to the present state have been found. Noticeably different histories of evolution are observed when the initial conditions and the values of the physical parameters are slightly modified, but generally the principal trend is maintained.The proposed evolutionary explanation of the current rotation of Venus has led us to place constraints on the solid bodyQ and on the magnitude of the atmospheric tidal torque. While the constraints seem rather severe in the absence of core-mantle friction (aQ15 at the annual frequency is required, and a dominant diurnal thermal response in the atmosphere is needed), for a large range of values of the core's viscosity, the liquid core effect allows us to relax somewhat these constraints: a solid bodyQ of the order 40 can then be allowed. ThisQ value implies that a semi-diurnal ground pressure oscillation of 2 mb is needed in the atmosphere in order for a stable balance to occur between the solid and atmospheric tides at the current rotation rate. No model of atmospheric tides on Venus has been attempted in this study, however the value of 2 mb agrees well with that predicted by the model given in Dobrovolskis (1978). 相似文献
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Tõnu Viik 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1994,211(2):307-322
The determination of the photon path-length distribution function (PLDF) for the case of linearly anisotropic (Rocard) scattering in a semi-infinite plane-parallel homogeneous atmosphere using the Piessens-Huysmans method is described in detail. It has been shown that in this case the PLDF may have a minimum at small path-lengths — a feature which is never encountered in isotropic scattering. The respective regions with minima in the (µ, )-plane have been sorted out. As a rule, the average path-length in the case of the forward/backward Rocard scattering is larger/smaller than that in the isotropic case. The precise average path-lengths for a number of parameters are shown in Table I. 相似文献
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C. Capitani F. Cavallini G. Ceppatelli E. Landi Degl'innocenti M. Landi Degl'innocenti M. Landolfi A. Righini 《Solar physics》1989,120(1):173-191
A theoretical model of the polarization properties of a Zeiss-type coelostat is presented and discussed in detail. The Muller matrix describing the modification of the Stokes vector of the incident radiation as a result of the multiple reflections on the coelostat mirrors is derived as a function of the solar coordinates, the geometrical configuration of the coelostat, and the parameters defining the optical properties of the mirrors. These parameters, or more particularly, the index of refraction n and the extinction coefficient k, have been evaluated by means of laboratory measurements performed on a series of specimens having characteristics similar to those of the coelostat mirrors. The geometry of the coelostat configuration is described in full detail. The theoretical model has been then particularized to the case of the Donati Solar Tower in Arcetri, and some experimental measurements have been performed to check the correctness of the model. These measurements show the basic adequacy of the mathematical model, although some offset terms are found in the Stokes parameters U and V. 相似文献
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Richard C. Altrock 《Solar physics》1968,5(3):260-280
Six neutral atomic oxygen Fraunhofer multiplets were observed at nine disk positions at Sacramento Peak Observatory. I filtered the data, corrected them for the instrumental profile and obtained equivalent widths.The equation of transfer for a plane-parallel atmosphere is solved to yield an expression for the equivalent width of a line or multiplet as a function of disk position; line source function, S
L, and relative population of the lower energy level of the transition. Comparison with the observations gives the abundance, average levels of formation of the lines and S
L.The numerical results show that the weak lines are formed either in L.T.E. or pure scattering (i.e., S
L B
v
(T
e) J
c), but for 7770 Å S
L/B
(T
e) 0.6 ± 0.1 at c = 0.1. An analysis of the central intensities of 7770 Å yields essentially the same results. The results for 8446 Å are not reliable due to a possible blend with an iron line. The abundance of oxygen in the photosphere may be slightly less than that found by previous investigators.The results are consistent with the assumption that all levels of photospheric oxygen are populated as in L.T.E. with the exception of 35S, which is overpopulated by approximately 50% at c = 0.1. The overpopulation may be due to the metastability of this level.Based on National Center for Atmospheric Research Cooperative Thesis No. 9. 相似文献
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A fraunhofer line profile depends on various parameters, partly related to the photospheric structure (T, P
g, P
e, v
conv, v
turb), partly to the atom or ion involved (such as oscillator strength, energy levels), partly also resulting from the interaction of the relevant kind of particles with the photosphere, and the photospheric radiation field. In this paper we shall mainly pay attention to the determination of: the macroturbulent (convective) velocities, v
conv (); the damping constant (); the abundance, A
el; the distribution function (v
conv, ) of the convective velocities at each depth ; the source function, S (); the microturbulent velocities, v
turb ().The particular difficulty with these unknowns is that they are, as a rule, coupled in the resulting line profiles, that is: the shapes and intensities in these profiles are determined by the combined influence of these unknowns (together with the other above-given parameters).In this paper we describe a method to determine these six unknowns empirically by separating them, in analysing accurate high-resolution observations of line profiles of a multiplet. The unknown functions and quantities are consecutively determined in the above given succession. For each determination another, appropriate part of the line profile is used. In some cases the influence of the mutual coupling of the various parameters cannot be completely eliminated, and an iterative method has to be used.The method is summarized in Table II and section 2, and is further explained in sections 3 to 8. It is applied to an infrared Ci multiplet. The main results are the following: 相似文献
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Taking into account magneto-optical effects, we have obtained numerical solutions of the transfer equations for the Stokes parameters, calculated the linearly polarized intensity (U) and constructed its monochromatic images of unipolar sunspots. By comparison with the observational material of the vector magnetograph of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville (Alabama), we have found that the model of radial magnetic fields may give rise to U monochromatic images close to those observed. The same conclusion has been obtained previously by Landi Degl'Innocenti (1979), although his analysis was performed with the Milne-Eddington approximation instead of a detailed sunspot model. Moreover, we have shown that the model of spiral magnetic fields leads to results in contrast with observations. 相似文献
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A. A. Van Ballegooijen 《Solar physics》1984,91(2):195-217
From a high-resolution spectrum of a sunspot umbra (1.1 < < 2.3 m) we derive models of the temperature stratification in the deep layers of the umbra. The observed spectrum is corrected for straylight using the Hi Paschen line at gl = 1.282 m. A method is described for the iterative fitting of empirical temperature models to spectral information, and the method is applied to the present data. We find that the observed profiles of 3 high-excitation lines of Sii and the observed continuum contrast between umbra and photosphere cannot be reproduced with a single one-component model of the umbral atmosphere: the Si i lines require a model that is 460 K hotter at gt
0.5 = 3 than the continuum model. This indicates that hot and cool components coexist within the umbra. A temperature model derived from the relative intensity in the wings of 3 low-excitation lines of Mgi, Ali, and Sii is not significantly different from the continuum model.Based on observations obtained at Kitt Peak National Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), under contract with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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Stokes I and V line profiles with high signal-to-noise ratio of the 1 Fei 5247.06 and 5250.22 Å lines have been recorded in a number of regions with different amount of magnetic flux near disc center, from non-magnetic regions to strong plages. The objective has been to study how the intrinsic fluxtube properties may depend on the amount of flux concentration, i.e., on the magnetic area factor. Indirectly, the area factor should be related to the average fluxtube diameter.The intrinsic kG field strength is found to vary only slowly, by at most a few hundred G, when the area factor increases by a factor of 6. The statistical spread in the values is quite small.The wavelength positions of the V profiles do not indicate any downdrafts within the fluxtubes. The well-known association of redward line shifts and magnetic features probably arises from motions in the field-free region adjacent to the fluxtubes. There are strong asymmetries of the Stokes V profile always in the sense of a 20–30% stronger blue peak, which indicate that there must be important mass motions with a vertical gradient within the fluxtubes.Most of the recordings have been made with a grating spectrometer, but two recordings with a Fourier transform spectrometer have provided an important check of the instrumental effects of limited spectral resolution and straylight in the spectrometer data. These effects modify the I and V profiles substantially, and can for instance result in fictitious redshifts derived from the Stokes V profiles.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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With the aim of investigating the resonance system of NO, equivalent width calculations have been made for the 213.575 nm, Q
1(31.5) line of the 1–0 band of -system of NO for the photospheric HSRA model, and for the line 214.012 nm, Q
1(25.5) line of the same band system for Zwaan's (1974) sunspot model.Calculations show that -band system would not show up in the photospheric spectrum whereas a sunspot model yields an equivalent width of 72 mÅ suggesting that sunspots may provide relatively more favourable conditions for the detections of the resonance systems of some abundant molecules in the inaccessible ultraviolet region. 相似文献
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The H line profile in a flare atmospheric model superposed by a spatially correlated velocity field is studied in detail in this paper. The computations are carried out with the assumption that the velocity field is represented by a Kubo-Anderson process. It is found that the shape and the intensity of the H line profile depend greatly on the parameters of the velocity field. The variation of the profile and its relative deviation with respect to different correlation lengths is more complex than in the case of absorption lines. It is also shown that such a profile cannot be matched by those produced in the usually-used micro- and macro-turbulent approaches, especially for the velocity field with an intermediate correlation length. The results imply that the flare atmosphere should be highly turbulent in order to explain the observed H line profile with only weak central reversal in the flare spectra. Particularly, the effects of meso-turbulent fields should be taken into account in order to improve the spectral diagnostics and modelling of the flare atmosphere. 相似文献
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J. Surdej 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1980,73(1):101-158
Generalization of the escape probability method introduced by Sobolev allows us to study the transfer of spectral line radiation for a resonance doublet in rapidly expanding envelopes.For the cases of outward-accelerating (or equivalently inward-decelerating) and outward-decelerating (or equivalently inward-accelerating) envelopes we derive, in the frame of a three-level atom model, the expressions for the spectral radiation fieldsJ
12 andJ
13, for the resulting radiative force FRE exerted per atom and for the resonance doublet profileE(X)/C
c; we take into account the complex radiative coupling, in both resonance transitions 12 and 13, between distant parts of the atmosphere.For various physical and geometrical conditions prevailing in the expanding media, we illustrate and discuss the behaviours of those quantities as well as their dependence on the parameters of the model. Namely, we deduce criteria under which resonance doublet profiles formed in outward-accelerating and/or outward-decelerating envelopes would appear to be resolved into double P Cygni profiles.We also stress the importance of treating a resonance doublet as being formed by two distinct resonance transitions when evaluating the resulting radiative force FRE acting on an atom. It is indeed shown that if we use a two-level atom model to represent a resonance doublet-i.e., assigning to it an oscillator strength equal to the sum of the oscillator strengths of both resonance transitions-the amplitude of the resulting radiative force can be underestimated by factors reaching 100% and more in the regions of the expanding envelope which are optically thick to the spectral line radiation. In this context, it would be essential to revise the previous models of radiation-driven winds developed for early-type stars in which the lines belonging to any multiplet were treated as a single line.Also, Aspirant au Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium). 相似文献
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Drake Deming John J. Hillman Theodor Kostiuk Michael J. Mumma David M. Zipoy 《Solar physics》1984,94(1):57-74
We have obtained low noise (S/N > 103), high spectral resolution (/ 10
6) observations of two pure rotation transitions of OH from the solar photosphere. The observations were obtained using the technique of optically null-balanced infrared heterodyne spectroscopy, and consist of center-to-limb line profiles of a = 1 and a = 0 transition near 12 m. These lines should be formed in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), and are diagnostics of the thermal structure of the upper photosphere. We find that the = 0R22(24.5)e line strengthens at the solar limb, in contradiction to the predictions of current one-dimensional photospheric models. Our data for this line support a two-dimensional model in which horizontal thermal fluctuations of order ±800 K occur in the region 5000 10–3–10–2. This thermal bifurcation may be maintained by the presence of magnetic flux tubes, and may be related to the solar limb extensions observed in the 30–200 m region.Observations of the = 1R11(29.5)f line, at 885.643 cm–1, show that it is anomalously weak in the photospheric spectrum. We argue that the source function in the core of this line has been substantially increased by interaction with the 9j-7i transition of Mgi at 885.524 cm–1, which is itself too weak to appear in the disk center spectrum.Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, under contract with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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The shape parameters of a number of selected ultraviolet lines in BUSS-spectra of the Beta Cephei stars Peg and Cep have been analyzed to determine the principal parameters of the atmospheric velocity field. We find for both stars a fairly high value (5 km s–1) for the microturbulent line-of-sight velocity component, which confirms an earlier result based on lower resolution UV spectra. Macroturbulent and rotational velocities are virtually zero in the atmosphere of Peg; for Cep we findv
rotsini=40 km s–1.On leave from Akita University, Akita, Japan. 相似文献