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Multidimensional and inhomogeneity effects on scattering polarization in solar prominences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

Ivan Milić
Affiliation:
UMR 7293 J.L. Lagrange Laboratory, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Campus Valrose, 06108 Nice, France email: milic@aob.rs Astronomical observatory Belgrade, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia email: marianne.faurobert@oca.eu
Marianne Faurobert
Affiliation:
UMR 7293 J.L. Lagrange Laboratory, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Campus Valrose, 06108 Nice, France email: milic@aob.rs
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Measurements of magnetic fields in solar prominences via Hanle effect usually assume either single scattering approximation or simple, one-dimensional, slab model in order to perform an inversion and find the unknown magnitude and the orientation of the magnetic field from spectropolarimetric observations. Here we perform self-consistent NLTE modeling of scattering polarization in inhomogeneous 2D slab, illuminated from its sides by the solar continuum radiation. We show that even in the absence of a magnetic field, in the non-optically thin regime, significant non-zero Stokes U is to be expected. Neglecting these effects, in principle, could cause systematic errors in spectropolarimetric inversions, in the case when the prominence is optically thick.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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