Spectropolarimetry of active regions.

Del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Martínez Pillet, V.; Vázquez, M.
Bibliographical reference

Solar Polarimetry, Proceedings of the 11th Sacramento Peak Summper Workshop. Edited by L.J. November. Sunspot, NM: National Solar Observatory, 1991, p. 224 - 236

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1991
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Description
A circular analyzer has been used at the focal plane of a telescope in days of absence of instrumental polarization to simultaneously record I±V spectrograms at two different wavelength ranges: ≡6300 Å and ≡3930 - 3970 Å. The observations have been analyzed within two, also different, frames: on the one hand, an empirical relationship between brightness temperature and the magnetic field strength has been found for sunspot umbrae, which allows a determination of the Wilson depression; on the other, estimates of the chromospheric longitudinal component of the magnetic field (magnetic flux if the filling factor is not unity) in two umbrae, in a penumbra, and in a plage have been found by using profiles of the resonance lines H and K of Ca II. A ratio of order 2 - 3 between the longitudinal components of the field at the chromospheric height of formation of the Ca II lines and the photospheric height of formation of the 6302.5 Å Fe I line is also found in umbrae.