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Socas-Navarro, H.; Trujillo Bueno, J.; Landi Degl'Innocenti, E.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 612, Issue 2, pp. 1175-1180.
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2004
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Citations
37
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28
Description
We investigate the formation of polarization profiles induced by a
magnetic field in the He I multiplet at 10830 Å. Our analysis
considers the Zeeman splitting in the incomplete Paschen-Back regime.
The effects turn out to be important and produce measurable signatures
on the profiles, even for fields significantly weaker than the
level-crossing field (~400 G). When compared to profiles calculated with
the usual linear Zeeman effect, the incomplete Paschen-Back profiles
exhibit the following conspicuous differences: (1) a non-Doppler
blueshift of the Stokes V zero-crossing wavelength of the blue
component; (2) area and peak asymmetries, even in the absence of
velocity and magnetic gradients; and (3) a ~25% reduction in the
amplitude of the red component. These features do not vanish in the
weak-field limit. The spectral signatures that we analyze in this paper
may be found in previous observations published in the literature.