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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Heinzel, Petr
• Jejčič, Sonja
• Štěpán, Jiří
• Susino, Roberto
• Andretta, Vincenzo
• Russano, Giuliana
• Fineschi, Silvano
• Romoli, Marco
• Bemporad, Alessandro
• Berlicki, Arkadiusz
• Burtovoi, Aleksandr
• Vania Da Deppo
• Yara De Leo
• Grimani, Catia
• Jerse, Giovanna
• Landini, Federico
• Naletto, Giampiero
• Nicolini, Gianalfredo
• Pancrazzi, Maurizio
• Tanausú del Pino Alemán
• Sasso, Clementina
• Spadaro, Daniele
• Stangalini, Marco
• Telloni, Daniele
• Teriaca, Luca
• Uslenghi, Michela
• Andrés Vicente Arévalo

Titel

First Metis Detection of the Helium D3 Line Polarization in a Large Eruptive Prominence

Ist Teil von

• Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2023-11, Vol.957 (1), p.L10

Ort / Verlag

Austin: IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Metis on board Solar Orbiter is the space coronagraph developed by an Italian–German–Czech consortium. It is capable of observing solar corona and various coronal structures in the visible-light (VL) and UV (hydrogen Lyα) channels simultaneously for the first time. Here we present observations of a large eruptive prominence on 2021 April 25–26, in the VL, taken during the mission cruise phase, and demonstrate that apart from the broadband continuum emission, which is due to the Thomson scattering on prominence electrons, we detect a significant radiation in the neutral-helium D3 line (587.6 nm), which lies within the Metis VL passband. We show how the prominence looks like in Stokes I, Q, and U. We consider two extreme cases of the prominence magnetic field, and we separate the Stokes I and Q signals pertinent to Thomson scattering and to the D3 line. The degree of linear polarization of the D3 line (both Q and U) indicates the presence of the prominence magnetic field; hence Metis can serve as a magnetograph for eruptive prominences located high in the corona.