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Felipe, T.; Martínez González, M. J.; Asensio Ramos, A.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 465, Issue 2, p.1654-1664
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2017
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Description
Stellar prominences detected in rapidly rotating stars serve as probes
of the magnetism in the corona of cool stars. We have synthesized the
temporal evolution of the Stokes profiles generated in the He I 10 830
and 5876 Å triplets during the rotation of a prominence around a
star. The synthesis was performed with the HAZEL code using a cloud
model in which the prominence is characterized by a slab located at a
fixed latitude and height. It accounts for the scattering polarization
and Zeeman and Hanle effects. Several cases with different prominence
magnetic field strengths and orientations have been analysed. The
results show an emission feature that drifts across the profile while
the prominence is out of the stellar disc. When the prominence eclipses
the star, the intensity profile shows an absorption. The scattering
induced by the prominence generates linear polarization signals in
Stokes Q and U profiles, which are modified by the Hanle effect when a
magnetic field is present. Due to the Zeeman effect, Stokes V profiles
show a signal with very low amplitude when the magnetic field along the
line of sight is different from zero. The estimated linear polarization
signals could potentially be detected with the future spectropolarimeter
Mid-resolution InfRAreD Astronomical Spectrograph, to be attached to
Gran Telescopio Canarias telescope.
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