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arXiv 2004.03679astro-ph.SR
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太阳盘中心在Sr I 4607谱线上表现出散射极化

Solar disk center shows scattering polarization in the Sr I 4607 Å line

Franziska Zeuner, Rafael Manso Sainz, Alex Feller, Michiel van Noort, Sami K. Solanki, Francisco A. Iglesias, Kevin Reardon, Valentín Martínez Pillet

摘要:

磁场在湍流,对流高$β$等离子体自然发展高度纠缠和复杂的拓扑结构-太阳光球是典型的例子。由于塞曼偏振信号的消除,这些场大多数是不可检测的标准诊断技术与有限的时空分辨率。共振散射极化的观测被认为是克服这些问题的方法。但到目前为止,散射偏振的观测缺乏高灵敏度和高空间分辨率的必要结合,以直接推断太阳望远镜分辨率极限处的湍流磁结构。在这里,我们报告的检测明确的空间结构的散射偏振在磁安静的太阳区域在磁盘中心的Sr~{ \sc i} 4607~谱线颗粒尺度上,证实了理论的预期。我们发现,线极化与辐射场的局域四极子呈现出很强的空间相关性。结果表明,偏振生存的动态和湍流的中间光球的磁环境,从而可用于空间分辨汉勒观测。这是朝着在分辨率极限下直接观测湍流太阳磁场并研究其空间结构这一长期追求的目标迈出的重要一步。

英文摘要:

Magnetic fields in turbulent, convective high-$β$ plasma naturally develop highly tangled and complex topologies---the solar photosphere being the paradigmatic example. These fields are mostly undetectable by standard diagnostic techniques with finite spatio-temporal resolution due to cancellations of Zeeman polarization signals. Observations of resonance scattering polarization have been considered to overcome these problems. But up to now, observations of scattering polarization lack the necessary combination of high sensitivity and high spatial resolution in order to directly infer the turbulent magnetic structure at the resolution limit of solar telescopes. Here, we report the detection of clear spatial structuring of scattering polarization in a magnetically quiet solar region at disk center in the Sr~{\sc i} 4607~Å~spectral line on granular scales, confirming theoretical expectations. We find that the linear polarization presents a strong spatial correlation with the local quadrupole of the radiation field. The result indicates that polarization survives the dynamic and turbulent magnetic environment of the middle photosphere and is thereby usable for spatially resolved Hanle observations. This is an important step toward the long-sought goal of directly observing turbulent solar magnetic fields at the resolution limit and investigating their spatial structure.

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