A Novel Method to Determine Magnetic Fields in Low-density Plasma Facilitated Through Accidental Degeneracy of Quantum States in Fe9+
(2015) In Astrophysical Journal 807(1).- Abstract
- We propose a new method to determine magnetic fields, by using the magnetic-field-induced electric dipole transition 3p(4) 3d D-4(7/2) -> 3p(5) P-3/2 in Fe9+ ions. This ion has a high abundance in astrophysical plasma and is therefore well suited for direct measurements of even rather weak fields in, e.g., solar flares. This transition is induced by an external magnetic field and its rate is proportional to the square of the magnetic field strength. We present theoretical values for what we will label the reduced rate and propose that the critical energy difference between the upper level in this transition and the close-to-degenerate 3p(4) 3d D-4(5/2) should be measured experimentally since it is required to determine the relative... (More)
- We propose a new method to determine magnetic fields, by using the magnetic-field-induced electric dipole transition 3p(4) 3d D-4(7/2) -> 3p(5) P-3/2 in Fe9+ ions. This ion has a high abundance in astrophysical plasma and is therefore well suited for direct measurements of even rather weak fields in, e.g., solar flares. This transition is induced by an external magnetic field and its rate is proportional to the square of the magnetic field strength. We present theoretical values for what we will label the reduced rate and propose that the critical energy difference between the upper level in this transition and the close-to-degenerate 3p(4) 3d D-4(5/2) should be measured experimentally since it is required to determine the relative intensity of this magnetic line for different magnetic fields. (Less)
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- Li, Wenxian ; Grumer, Jon LU ; Yang, Yang ; Brage, Tomas LU ; Yao, Ke ; Chen, Chongyang ; Watanabe, Tetsuya ; Jonsson, Per ; Lundstedt, Henrik and Hutton, Roger
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- 2015
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- keywords
- atomic processes, Sun: corona, Sun: magnetic fields, Sun: UV radiation, techniques: spectroscopic
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- Astrophysical Journal
- volume
- 807
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 69
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- American Astronomical Society
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- wos:000358945200069
- scopus:84935413741
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- 0004-637X
- DOI
- 10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/69
- language
- English
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- yes
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Mathematical Physics (Faculty of Science) (011040001), Physics, science (011013100)
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author = {{Li, Wenxian and Grumer, Jon and Yang, Yang and Brage, Tomas and Yao, Ke and Chen, Chongyang and Watanabe, Tetsuya and Jonsson, Per and Lundstedt, Henrik and Hutton, Roger}},
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publisher = {{American Astronomical Society}},
series = {{Astrophysical Journal}},
title = {{A Novel Method to Determine Magnetic Fields in Low-density Plasma Facilitated Through Accidental Degeneracy of Quantum States in Fe9+}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/69}},
doi = {{10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/69}},
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