The physical origin and the diagnostic potential of the scattering polarization in the lithium resonance doublet at 6708 A

Luca Belluzzi, Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti, Javier Trujillo Bueno

High-sensitivity measurements of the linearly-polarized solar limb spectrum produced by scattering processes in quiet regions of the solar atmosphere showed that the Q/I profile of…