Bibcode
DOI
Pietarila, A.; Socas-Navarro, H.; Bogdan, T.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 663, Issue 2, pp. 1386-1405.
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2007
Journal
Citations
31
Refereed citations
29
Description
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 and 8542 Å lines in a
quiet Sun region near a decaying active region and compare the results
with a simulation of the lines in a high plasma-β regime. Cluster
analysis of Stokes V profile pairs shows that the two lines, despite
arguably being formed fairly close, often do not have similar shapes. In
the network, the local magnetic topology is more important in
determining the shapes of the Stokes V profiles than the phase of the
wave, contrary to what our simulations show. We also find that Stokes V
asymmetries are very common in the network, and the histograms of the
observed amplitude and area asymmetries differ significantly from the
simulation. Both the network and internetwork show oscillatory behavior
in the Ca II lines. It is stronger in the network, where shocking waves,
similar to those in the high-β simulation, are seen and large
self-reversals in the intensity profiles are common.