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The quiet Sun represents the majority of the solar surface outside of sunspots, pores, and plages, containing weak and dynamic magnetic fields whose origins are strongly linked to convective plasma motions. The study investigates the strength and configuration of vector magnetic fields in the quiet photosphere using spectropolarimetric observations from the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT-SP) aboard the Hinode satellite by using the High Altitude Observatory. The vector magnetic fields and plasma velocity were found by using a Milne-Eddington inversion approach where level 1 data was used to produce level 2 data. The mean magnetic field was calculated to lie in the range between 100–200 Gauss, while the photospheric plasma velocities ranged from 0.09–0.10 km/s in the quiet regions.
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