Bibcode
Shchukina, N. G.; Trujilo-Bueno, J.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Polarization 5: In Honor of Jan Stenflo ASP Conference Series, Vol. 405, proceedings of the conference held 17-21 September, 2007 at Centro Stefano Franscini--Monte Veritá, Ascona, Switzerland. Edited by Svetlana V. Berdyugina, K. N. Nagendra, and Renzo Ramelli. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009., p.275
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2009
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6
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5
Description
Here we present multilevel radiative transfer calculations of the
scattering polarization of neutral titanium lines in a three-dimensional
model of the solar photosphere, which we have obtained from realistic
hydrodynamical simulations of solar surface convection. We consider the
particularly interesting case of the Ti I multiplet a{^5}F -
y{^5}Fo, which is well suited for investigating the Sun's
hidden magnetism via the differential Hanle effect. After considering
the unmagnetized reference case, we show that the depolarization
produced by a volume-filling microturbulent field with a strength such
that it produces saturation of the upper-level Hanle effect leads to a
much better fit to Gandorfer's (2002) observations.