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We study the polar magnetism near an activity maximum when these regions change their polarity, from which it is expected that its magnetism should be less affected by the global field. To fully characterise the magnetic field vector, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Pastor Yabar , M. J. Martínez González , M. Collados

The Ca II infrared triplet is one of the few magnetically sensitive chromospheric lines available for ground-based observations. We present spectropolarimetric observations of the 8498 A and 8542 A lines in a quiet Sun region near a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Pietarila , H. Socas-Navarro , T. Bogdan

Some models for the topology of the magnetic field in sunspot penumbrae predict the existence of field-free or dynamically weak-field regions in the deep Photosphere. To confirm or rule out the existence of weak-field regions in the deepest…

This paper is based on a dataset of many strongly polarized solar lines belonging to the ''second solar spectrum'', i.e. the spectrum near the limb in linear scattering polarization. The observations were done at the Pic du Midi Turret Dome…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Jean-Marie Malherbe

Regular magnetic fields are frequently found within and in the outskirts of galaxies, but their presence, properties, and origin has not yet been established for galaxy groups. On the basis of broadband radio polarimetric imaging with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Błażej Nikiel-Wroczyński , Marian Soida , George Heald , Marek Urbanik

Context: Observations indicate that the `quiet' solar photosphere outside active regions contains considerable amounts of magnetic energy and magnetic flux, with mixed polarity on small scales. The origin of this flux is unclear. Aims: We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Voegler , M. Schuessler

We demonstrate that the radial magnetic-field component at the outer boundary of the sunspot penumbra is about 550 Mx cm$^{-2}$ independent of the sunspot area and the maximum magnetic field in the umbra. The mean magnetic-field intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 V. N. Obridko , M. M. Katsova , D. D. Sokoloff , B. D. Shelting , I. M. Livshits

We simultaneously observed the Stokes parameters of the photospheric iron line pair at 630.2 nm and the intensity profile of the chromospheric Ca II H line at 396.8 nm in a quiet Sun region at a heliocentric angle of 53 deg. We perform a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , C. A. R. Beck , J. H. M. J. Bruls , W. Schmidt

Turbulent magnetic fields fill most of the volume of the solar atmosphere. However, their spatial and temporal variations are still unknown. Since 2007, during the current solar minimum, we are periodically monitoring several wavelength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 L. Kleint , S. V. Berdyugina , A. I. Shapiro , M. Bianda

In this work, we study and quantify properties of strong-field small-scale convection and compare observed properties with those predicted by numerical simulations. We analyze spectropolarimetric 630.25 nm data from a unipolar ephemeral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Narayan , G. B. Scharmer

Faraday rotation of radio source polarization provides a measure of the integrated magnetic field along the observational lines of sight. We compare a new, large sample of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongzhong Xu , Philipp P. Kronberg , Salman Habib , Quentin W. Dufton

We analyze high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of a flux emerging region (FER) in order to understand its magnetic and kinematic structure. Our spectropolarimetric observations in the He I 1083.0 nm spectral region of a FER are…

The amplitude of the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre has been uncertain by two orders of magnitude for several decades. On a scale of approximately 100 pc fields of approximately 1000 microG have been reported, implying a magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-11 Roland M. Crocker , David Jones , Fulvio Melia , Jürgen Ott , Raymond J. Protheroe

We present high-pass filtered continuum images of the inner $3.5^\circ\times2.5^\circ$ of the Galactic center at 20 cm with $6.4''$ resolution. These mosaic images are taken with MeerKAT and reveal a large number of narrow filaments,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. G. Arendt , M. Wardle , I. Heywood , W. D. Cotton , F. Camilo

AU Mic is a young, very active M dwarf star with a debris disk and at least one transiting Neptune-size planet. Here we present detailed analysis of the magnetic field of AU Mic based on previously unpublished high-resolution optical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Oleg Kochukhov , Ansgar Reiners

Small-scale internetwork (IN) features are thought to be the major source of fresh magnetic flux in the quiet Sun. During its first science flight in 2009, the balloon-borne observatory Sunrise captured images of the magnetic fields in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 H. N. Smitha , L. S. Anusha , S. K. Solanki , T. Riethmueller

We report on the a5F-y5F* multiplet of Ti I and its interest for the study of 'turbulent' magnetic fields in the quiet solar photosphere. In particular, we argue that the sizable scattering polarization signal of the 4536 \AA line (whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Manso Sainz , E. Landi Degl'Innocenti , J. Trujillo Bueno

We analyzed spectropolarimetric data from the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope to investigate physical properties of small-scale magnetic cancellations in the quiet Sun photosphere. Specifically, we looked at the full Stokes polarization…

Global magnetic fields of active solar-like stars are nowadays routinely detected with spectropolarimetric measurements and are mapped with Zeeman-Doppler imaging (ZDI). However, due to the cancellation of opposite field polarities,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 O. Kochukhov , T. Hackman , J. J. Lehtinen , A. Wehrhahn

The photospheric magnetic field outside of active regions and the network has a ubiquitous and dynamic line-of-sight component that strengthens from disk center to limb as expected for a nearly horizontal orientation. This component shows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Harvey , D. Branston , C. J. Henney , C. U. Keller , the SOLIS Team , the GONG Team