Bibcode
Manso Sainz, R.; Trujilo-Bueno, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Solar polarization : proceedings of an international workshop held in Bangalore, India, 12-16 October, 1998 / edited by K.N. Nagendra and J.O. Stenflo. Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. (Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 243), p.143-156
Fecha de publicación:
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1999
Número de citas
9
Número de citas referidas
7
Descripción
This paper addresses the problem of scattering line polarization and the
Hanle effect in one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D) and
three-dimensional (3D) media for the case of a two-level model atom
without lower-level polarization and assuming complete frequency
redistribution. The theoretical framework chosen for its formulation is
the QED theory of Landi Degl'Innocenti (1983), which specifies the
excitation state of the atoms in terms of the irreducible tensor
components of the atomic density matrix. The self-consistent values of
these density-matrix elements is to be determined by solving jointly the
kinetic and radiative transfer equations for the Stokes parameters. We
show how to achieve this by generalizing to Non-LTE polarization
transfer the Jacobi-based ALI method of Olson et al. (1986) and the
iterative schemes based on Gauss-Seidel iteration of Trujillo Bueno and
Fabiani Bendicho (1995). These methods essentially maintain the
simplicity of the Lambda-iteration method, but their convergence rate is
extremely high. Finally, some 1D and 2D model calculations are presented
that illustrate the effect of horizontal atmospheric inhomogeneities on
magnetic and non-magnetic resonance line polarization signals.