Quiet-Sun Internetwork Magnetic Fields from the Inversion of Hinode Measurements

Orozco Suárez, D.; Bellot Rubio, L. R.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Tsuneta, S.; Lites, B. W.; Ichimoto, K.; Katsukawa, Y.; Nagata, S.; Shimizu, T.; Shine, R. A.; Suematsu, Y.; Tarbell, T. D.; Title, A. M.
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 670, Issue 1, pp. L61-L64.

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11
2007
Number of authors
13
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
197
Refereed citations
153
Description
We analyze Fe I 630 nm observations of the quiet Sun at disk center taken with the spectropolarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard the Hinode satellite. A significant fraction of the scanned area, including granules, turns out to be covered by magnetic fields. We derive field strength and inclination probability density functions from a Milne-Eddington inversion of the observed Stokes profiles. They show that the internetwork consists of very inclined, hG fields. As expected, network areas exhibit a predominance of kG field concentrations. The high spatial resolution of Hinode's spectropolarimetric measurements brings to an agreement the results obtained from the analysis of visible and near-infrared lines.