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- Title
Photospheric Stratification of a Central Umbral Dot Using Stokes Profiles Recorded by Hinode: A Different Single-Case Study.
- Authors
Hamedivafa, H.
- Abstract
We aim to study the physical nature of a central umbral dot (UD) close to disk center by analyzing full-Stokes spectra of the two Fe i lines at 630 nm recorded by the spectropolarimeter on Hinode. Thermal and magnetic properties of the UD were directly inferred from Stokes profiles. Then, we applied the inversion code SIR to retrieve a single-component magnetic model atmosphere that recovers the observed full-Stokes profiles. The inversion results and direct inferences from the iron line pair are consistent. The studied UD does not show any signatures of upflows, but tends to show downflows. At the deeper-half of the photosphere (log τ>−1.0), the UD exhibits rapid changes in temperature with respect to its surroundings. The UD has a large magnetic field strength of about 3000 G without significant reduction at its center. Magnetic field lines are more vertical and twisted in the UD area than in the magnetic field of its surroundings. To explain the observational findings, we propose that the UD perturbs the funnel magnetic field of the umbra, making a tilt-ankle-knee configuration. A new interesting inference, deduced from the blending spectral lines in the observed wavelength interval, is that the shape and surface span of the UD in normalized intensity filtergrams computed at the core of the blending lines differ from the UD area seen in continuum intensity and in the filtergrams computed at the core of the iron line pair.
- Subjects
SOLAR photosphere; CASE studies; SPECTROPOLARIMETERS; MAGNETIC fields; WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL lines
- Publication
Solar Physics, 2013, Vol 286, Issue 2, p327
- ISSN
0038-0938
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11207-013-0277-9