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SPECTROSCOPOLARIMETRIC SENSING OF ENERGY DEPOSITION INTO THE CHROMOSPHERE DURING SOLAR FLARES – I. Observations

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Measurements of linear polarization in hydrogen Hα and Hβ lines, made with the Large Solar Vacuum Telescope of Baikal Astrophysical Observatory and Automated Solar Telescope of Sayan Solar Observatory, affiliated with the Russian Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Physics, are reported in this paper. Short-term polarization associated with solar flares is found to be present in active regions. There is a significant tendency for the Hα polarization vector to be radial, i.e., in the flare-to-disk-center direction. This polarization may be due to atmospheric bombardment by hecta keV protons. On the other hand, the polarization vector is found to be perpendicular to the radial direction at some locations where the line profile has a typical mustache shape suggesting a bombardment by energetic electrons. The Hβ line is also linearly polarized. However, no preferential direction of polarization is found in this line, which is formed more deeply in the solar atmosphere.

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  1. Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, 126 ul. Lermontova, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    N. M. FIRSTOVA

  2. Paris Observatory, DASOP, 92195, Meudon, France

    J.-C. HÉNOUX & S. A. KAZANTSEV

  3. Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. A. KAZANTSEV

  4. Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, 126 ul. Lermontova, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    A. V. BULATOV

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FIRSTOVA, N.M., HÉNOUX, JC., KAZANTSEV, S.A. et al. SPECTROSCOPOLARIMETRIC SENSING OF ENERGY DEPOSITION INTO THE CHROMOSPHERE DURING SOLAR FLARES – I. Observations. Solar Physics 171, 123–144 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004968220563

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