Vector Magnetic Fields in Prominences: Observations and Analysis
Abstract
Stokes polarimeter spectral profiles of He I D3, representing many observational points within a quiescent prominence, are interpreted using a detailed quantum-mechanical theory of resonance polarization for the D3 multiplet. The multiple set of solutions obtained when the linear polarization information alone is used can be reduced, generally to a symmetric pair, when the full, generalized theory is applied that interprets also the weak circular polarization Stokes profile. In most cases a unique solution can be found through additional information available from disk field polarity.
- Publication:
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Kodaikanal Observatory Bulletins
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984KodOB...4...35S
- Keywords:
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- MAGNETIC FIELDS;
- OBSERVATIONS