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DOI
Domínguez Cerdeña, I.; Kneer, F.; Sánchez Almeida, J.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 582, Issue 1, pp. L55-L58.
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2003
Journal
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100
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86
Description
We present spectropolarimetric observations of internetwork magnetic
fields at the solar disk center. A Fabry-Pérot spectrometer was
used to scan the two Fe I lines at 6301.5 and 6302.5 Å. High
spatial resolution (0.5") magnetograms were obtained after speckle
reconstruction. The patches with magnetic fields above noise cover
approximately 45% of the observed area. Such large coverage renders a
mean unsigned magnetic flux density of some 20 G (or 20 Mx
cm-2), which exceeds all previous measurements. Magnetic
signals occur predominantly in intergranular spaces. The systematic
difference between the flux densities measured in the two iron lines
leads to the conclusion that, typically, we detect structures with
intrinsic field strengths larger than 1 kG occupying only 2% of the
surface.