Sunspots

Unusual Stokes V profiles during flaring activity of a delta sunspot

Aims: We analyze a set of full Stokes profile observations of the flaring active region NOAA 10808. The region was recorded with the Vector-Spectromagnetograph of the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun facility. The active region …

Infrared lines as probes of solar magnetic features. XIV. TI i and the cool components of sunspots

The first systematic observations of sunspot umbrae using the lines of the Ti Ii multiplet at 2.2 mu m are presented. Their diagnostic capabilities are investigated, developed and used to investigate the magnetic and velocity structure of a sunspot. …

Multicolor Continuum Analysis of the Solar Granulation in Quiet and Active Regions

A set of narrow-band filtergrams of the solar photosphere recorded in three widely separated true continuum windows and in Mg I b1 with a spatial resolution of about 0.5 arcsec is analyzed. The influence of small-scale magnetic fields on the …

Dependence of the properties of solar magnetic flux tubes on filling factor. II - Results of an inversion approach

The dependence of the properties of solar magnetic elements on the magnetic filling factor is studied using Stokes V spectra of three lines observed near the center of the solar disk. The inversion technique developed by Keller et al. (1990) is …