Observation and analysis of chromospheric magnetic fields

Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez, Hector Socas-Navarro, Michiel van Noort, Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Published 2010-04-05Version 1

The solar chromosphere is a vigorously dynamic region of the sun, where waves and magnetic fields play an important role. To improve chromospheric diagnostics, we present new observations in Ca II 8542 carried out with the SST/CRISP on La Palma, working in full-Stokes mode. We measured Stokes line profiles in active regions. The line profiles observed close to the solar limb show signals in all four Stokes parameters, while profiles observed close to disk center only show signals above the noise level in Stokes I and V. We used the LTE inversion code 'NICOLE' to derive atmospheric parameters in umbral flashes present in a small round sunspot without penumbra.