Bibcode
DOI
Ruiz-Cobo, B.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 398, no. 1, p. 375-385.
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10
1992
Journal
Citations
624
Refereed citations
504
Description
An inversion code of Stokes line profiles is presented. It allows the
recovery of the stratification of the temperature, the magnetic field
vector, and the line of sight velocity through the atmosphere, and the
micro- and macroturbulence velocities - which are assumed to be constant
with depth. It is based on the response functions, which enter a
Marquardt nonlinear least-squares algorithm in a natural way. Response
functions are calculated at the same time as the full radiative transfer
equation for polarized light is integrated. This enables us to obtain
values of many free parameters in a reasonable computation time. Many
numerical experiments have been performed in order to check the behavior
of the code. These experiments reveal the high stability, accuracy, and
uniqueness of the results, even when simulated observations present
signal-to-noise ratios of the order of the lowest acceptable values in
real observations.