Model calculations of the degree of polarization of solar S-coniponent emission at millimetre waves

Model calculations of the S-component accounting for the emission from uniform sunspot and inhomogeneous plage regions are applied to a prediction of the spectral distribution of the degree of circular polarization at millimetre waves. The results are compared with observations adopted from the literature and a sufficient agreement between model computation and measurement can be slated. However, observations with higher spatial resolution than presently available are needed in order to check the predicted fine structures and to verify details of the applied model.