Bibcode
DOI
Sanchez Almeida, J.
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysical Journal v.491, p.993
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12
1997
Citations
93
Refereed citations
72
Description
The paper describes an automatic inversion code to recover
microstructured magnetic atmospheres (MISMAs) by fitting Stokes
profiles. These solar model atmospheres incorporate small-scale
fluctuations of the magnetic field vector, the velocity, the
temperature, etc., which seems to be an intrinsic property of the
magnetic photosphere. The model MISMAs considered for inversion have
several distinct components. Each one of them is made of slender flux
tubes, so that the whole vertical stratification of the MISMA is
reconstructed from a finite set of parameters. The inversion code has
been thoroughly tested using both synthetic and real observations. In
particular, it successfully reproduces line profiles and model
atmospheres corresponding to the quiet Sun and plage regions. As a
by-product, we introduce a new error estimate for nonlinear
least-squares minimizations.