Magnetic Flux Emergence In The Quiet Sun Photosphere

Centeno, Rebecca; Lites, B.; Socas-Navarro, H.; Frank, Z.; Shine, R.; Tarbell, T.; Title, A.; Ichimoto, K.; Tsuneta, S.; Katsukawa, Y.; Suematsu, Y.; Kubo, M.; Shimizu, T.
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American Astronomical Society Meeting 210, #94.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.218

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2007
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We study the emergence of magnetic flux at very small spacial scales (less than 1 arcsec) in the quiet Sun internetwork. To this aim, several time series of spectropolarimetric maps were taken at disk center using the instrument SP/SOT on board Hinode. The LTE inversion of the full Stokes vector measured in the Fe I 6301 and 6302 lines will allow us to retrieve the magnetic flux and topology in the region of study. We find that the magnetic flux emerges typically within the granular structures. In many cases, the horizontal magnetic field appears prior to any significant amount of vertical field. As time goes on, the traces of the horizontal field dissapear while the the vertical dipoles drift -carried by the plasma motions- towards the surrounding intergranular lanes. Sometimes they stay trapped there for a while but they eventually either disappear by disgregation/cancelation or agregate to other magnetic field concentrations giving rise to larger flux elements. The time scale of these events is of the order of 10-20 minutes.