Magnetic fields in the chromosphere above a quiet-Sun region observed by the SCIP instrument onboard Sunrise-III, and magnetic structures reproduced by a numerical simulation (IMAGE)

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Magnetic fields in the chromosphere above a quiet-Sun region observed by the SCIP instrument onboard Sunrise-III, and magnetic structures reproduced by a numerical simulation

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Magnetic fields in the chromosphere above a quiet-Sun region observed by the SCIP instrument onboard Sunrise-III (right box), and magnetic structures reproduced by a numerical simulation (left box). The thin, thread-like magnetic structures detected by SCIP are reproduced in the simulation as twisted magnetic field lines (enlarged view inside the circle at the lower left).

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NAOJ / MPS / Sunrise-III/SCIP

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