Synopses & Reviews
Complete overview of spectropolarimetry for graduates and researchers.
About the Author
Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta is a Tenure Scientist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain.
Table of Contents
1. Historical introduction; 2. A review of basic concepts; 3. Polarization of quasi-monochromatic light; 4. Linear optical systems acting on polarized light; 5. Solar polarimetry; 6. Absorption and dispersion; 7. The radiative transfer equation; 8. The RTE in the presence of a magnetic field; 9. Solving the radiative transfer equation; 10. Stokes spectrum diagnostics; 11. Inversion of the RTE.