Towards solar many-line inversions
Abstract
The Sun's atmosphere is significantly influenced by events that often measure only tens of kilometres in the horizontal direction. They happen in both quiet and active regions and are determined by magneto-hydro-dynamic processes. Their origins often lie in the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere. To improve the understanding of chromospheric and coronal heating, the solar dynamo and its activity cycle, or to improve the prediction of space weather events we must therefore enhance our understanding of such small-scale events. In this work I first describe the process of calibrating spectropolarimetric observations with very high spatial resolution and put together the building blocks for the mathematical proof the MOMFBD image reconstruction algorithm. In the second part I describe the FISS-SP prototype which is designed to fully exploit the resolution power of a 1.6m telescope. This instrument is built to provide suitable data for image reconstruction of spectropolarimetric data. The resulting data can resolve small-scale features down to the diffraction limit. The simultaneous interpretation of a few lines is still the norm for spatially highly resolved solar spectra. Theoretical works have shown that the simultaneous interpretation of multiple solar lines can greatly improve the robustness against noise. Using observations from FISS-SP I advance the theoretical idea into a practical technique. With this I can retrieve a coherent model of the local solar atmosphere, resolving structures down to a horizontal size of about 49~km. Finally, I use those new techniques to interpret an observation of a solar pore. In this last part I describe and analyse small-scale structures, which could not be spectropolarimetrically resolved before. Typical pore-boundary features - namely, dark striations with bright grains moving into the pore - are identified as convective features.
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BibTeX
@misc{holken2026towards,
title = {{Towards solar many-line inversions}},
author = {Johannes Hölken},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.01251},
eprint = {2610.01251},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01251},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Towards solar many-line inversions
AU - Johannes Hölken
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.01251
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01251
AB - The Sun's atmosphere is significantly influenced by events that often measure only tens of kilometres in the horizontal direction. They happen in both quiet and active regions and are determined by magneto-hydro-dynamic processes. Their origins often lie in the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere. To improve the understanding of chromospheric and coronal heating, the solar dynamo and its activity cycle, or to improve the prediction of space weather events we must therefore enhance our understanding of such small-scale events. In this work I first describe the process of calibrating spectropolarimetric observations with very high spatial resolution and put together the building blocks for the mathematical proof the MOMFBD image reconstruction algorithm. In the second part I describe the FISS-SP prototype which is designed to fully exploit the resolution power of a 1.6m telescope. This instrument is built to provide suitable data for image reconstruction of spectropolarimetric data. The resulting data can resolve small-scale features down to the diffraction limit. The simultaneous interpretation of a few lines is still the norm for spatially highly resolved solar spectra. Theoretical works have shown that the simultaneous interpretation of multiple solar lines can greatly improve the robustness against noise. Using observations from FISS-SP I advance the theoretical idea into a practical technique. With this I can retrieve a coherent model of the local solar atmosphere, resolving structures down to a horizontal size of about 49~km. Finally, I use those new techniques to interpret an observation of a solar pore. In this last part I describe and analyse small-scale structures, which could not be spectropolarimetrically resolved before. Typical pore-boundary features - namely, dark striations with bright grains moving into the pore - are identified as convective features.
ER -