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The polarization of the Mg II h and k lines holds significant diagnostic potential for measuring chromospheric magnetic fields, which are crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the energy transport and dissipation in the…

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Quantum interference effects play a vital role in shaping the linear polarization profiles of solar spectral lines. The Ba II D2 line at 4554 A is a prominent example, where the F-state interference effects due to the odd isotopes produce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. N. Smitha , K. N. Nagendra , J. O. Stenflo , M. Sampoorna

This is the second paper in a series whose aim is to predict the power spectrum of intensity and polarized intensity from cosmic reionization fronts. After building the analytic models for intensity and polarized intensity calculations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily Koivu , Heyang Long , Yuanyuan Yang , Christopher M. Hirata

(Abridged) The goal of this work is to investigate if SiO, H2O and HCN maser emission within the ALMA frequency range can be detected with observable levels of fractional linear polarization in the regime where the Zeeman frequency (gOmega)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. F. Pérez-Sánchez , W. H. T. Vlemmings

We present results obtained with a 3D, Ly alpha radiative transfer code, applied to a fully cosmological galaxy formation simulation. The developed Monte Carlo code is capable of treating an arbitrary distribution of source Ly alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-19 P. Laursen , J. Sommer-Larsen

The reconstruction of the solar spectral irradiance (SSI) on various time scales is essential for the understanding of the Earth's climate response to the SSI variability. The driver of the SSI variability is understood to be the intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 M. Haberreiter , S. Criscuoli , M. Rempel , T. M. D. Pereira

We study the EUV/soft X-ray emission generated by charge transfer between solar wind heavy ions and interstellar H and He neutral atoms in the inner Heliosphere. We present heliospheric maps and spectra for stationary solar wind, depending…

We study the circular polarization of the Mn I resonance lines at 279.56, 279.91, and 280.19 nm (hereafter, UV multiplet) by means of radiative transfer modeling. In 2019, the CLASP2 mission obtained unprecedented spectropolarimetric data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Ernest Alsina Ballester , Javier Trujillo Bueno

The physics of the solar chromosphere depends in a crucial way on its magnetic structure. However there are presently very few direct magnetic field diagnostics available for this region. Here we investigate the diagnostic potential of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Faurobert , M. Derouich , V. Bommier , J. Arnaud

In this paper we describe the semi-spectral linear MHD (SLiM) code which we have written to follow the interaction of linear waves through an inhomogeneous three-dimensional solar atmosphere. The background model allows almost arbitrary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-12 R. Cameron , L. Gizon , K. Daiffallah

In solar EUV spectra the He I and He II resonance lines show unusual behaviour and have anomalously high intensities compared with other transition region lines. The formation of the helium resonance lines is investigated through extensive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. R. Smith

The detection of disk-integrated polarization from Luhman 16A and B in H-band, and subsequent modeling, has been interpreted in the framework of zonal cloud bands on these bodies. Recently, Tan and Showman (2021) investigated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Sagnick Mukherjee , Jonathan J. Fortney , Rebecca Jensen-Clem , Xianyu Tan , Mark S. Marley , Natasha E. Batalha

The efficacy of fast/slow MHD mode conversion in the surface layers of sunspots has been demonstrated over recent years using a number of modelling techniques, including ray theory, perturbation theory, differential eigensystem analysis,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. S. Cally , M. Goossens

For about a decade, spectro-polarimetry of HeI 10830 has been applied to the magnetic diagnostics of the solar chromosphere. This resonance line is very versatile, as it is visible both on disk and in off-limb structures, and it has a good…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Casini , R. Manso Sainz , B. C. Low

We developed a Monte Carlo code that describes the resonant Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick, dusty, and static medium. The code was tested against the analytic formula derived by Neufeld (1990). We explain the line transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung-Mok Lee

Absorption of the Lyman-$\alpha$ radiation on Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen (ISN H) atoms in the heliosphere is a potentially important effect to account for in precise gas distribution simulations. In this paper we develop a method to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska , Marzena A. Kubiak , Maciej Bzowski

Light scattered off particles can become linearly polarized. Stars surrounded by oblique, co-rotating envelopes are therefore expected to manifest periodic linear polarimetric variations. The electron scattering magnetospheres of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 M. S. Munoz , G. A. Wade , D. M. Faes , A. C. Carciofi , J. Labadie-Bartz

We present a new Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code, which we have used to model the cyclotron line features in the environment of a variable magnetic field and plasma density. The code accepts an input continuum and performs only the line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Sandeep Kumar , Suman Bala , Dipankar Bhattacharya

A Monte Carlo code to solve the transfer of Lyman alpha (Lya) photons is developed, which can predict the Lya image and two-dimensional Lya spectra of a hydrogen cloud with any given geometry, Lya emissivity, neutral hydrogen density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Star-forming regions in galaxies are surrounded by vast reservoirs of gas capable of both emitting and absorbing Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiation. Observations of Lya emitters and spatially extended Lya haloes indeed provide insights into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Bing-Xin Lao , Aaron Smith