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Spectropolarimetric analysis of 3D MHD sunspot simulations
Author(s) -
Borrero J.M.,
Rempel M.,
Solanki S.K.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201011373
Subject(s) - sunspot , magnetohydrodynamics , physics , magnetic field , polarization (electrochemistry) , penumbra , computational physics , solar physics , astrophysics , stokes parameters , optics , medicine , chemistry , ischemia , quantum mechanics , scattering , cardiology
We have employed 3D non‐grey MHD simulations of sunspots to compute theoretical Stokes profiles and compare the levels of circular and linear polarization in the simulations with those observed in a real sunspot. We find that the spatial distribution and average values of these quantities agree very well with the observations, although the polarization levels in the simulations are slightly larger. This can be explained by a slightly larger magnetic field strength or a larger temperature gradient in the simulated penumbra as compared to the observations (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)