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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 693, 期 2, 页码 1728-1735出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/2/1728
关键词
MHD; Sun: magnetic fields; techniques: polarimetric; turbulence
Using turbulent MHD simulations (magnetic Reynolds numbers up to approximate to 8000) and Hinode observations, we study effects of turbulence on measuring the solar magnetic field outside active regions. First, from synthetic Stokes V profiles for the Fe I lines at 6301 and 6302 angstrom, we show that a peaked probability distribution function (PDF) for observationally derived field estimates is consistent with a monotonic PDF for actual vertical field strengths. Hence, the prevalence of weak fields is greater than would be naively inferred from observations. Second, we employ the fractal self-similar geometry of the turbulent solar magnetic field to derive two estimates (numerical and observational) of the true mean vertical unsigned flux density. We also find observational evidence that the scales of magnetic structuring in the photosphere extend at least down to an order of magnitude smaller than 200 km: the self-similar power-law scaling in the signed measure from a Hinode magnetogram ranges (over two decades in length scales and including the granulation scale) down to the approximate to 200 km resolution limit. From the self-similar scaling, we determine a lower bound for the true quiet-Sun mean vertical unsigned flux density of similar to 50 G. This is consistent with our numerically based estimates that 80% or more of the vertical unsigned flux should be invisible to Stokes V observations at a resolution of 200 km owing to the cancellation of signal from opposite magnetic polarities. Our estimates significantly reduce the order-of-magnitude discrepancy between Zeeman-and Hanle-based estimates.
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