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Ishikawa, Ryohko; Trujillo Bueno, Javier; McKenzie, David E.; Song, Donguk; del Pino Alemán, Tanausú; Alsina Ballester, Ernest; Belluzzi, Luca; Li, Hao; Auchère, Frédéric; Bethge, Christian; De Pontieu, Bart; Kano, Ryouhei; Kobayashi, Ken; Kobelski, Adam R.; Okamoto, Takenori J.; Rachmeler, Laurel A.; Sakao, Taro; Štěpán, Jiří; Vigil, Genevieve D.; Winebarger, Amy
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The Astrophysical Journal
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2025
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We determine magnetic fields from the photosphere to the upper chromosphere combining data from the Hinode satellite and the CLASP2.1 sounding rocket experiment. CLASP2.1 provided polarization profiles of the Mg II h and k lines, as well as of the Mn I lines around 2800 Å, across various magnetic structures in an active region, containing a plage, a pore, and the edges of a sunspot penumbra. By applying the weak-field approximation to the circular polarization profiles of these spectral lines, we obtain a longitudinal magnetic field map at three different heights in the chromosphere (lower, middle, and upper). This is complemented by data from Hinode (photospheric magnetic field), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (high spatial resolution observations of the chromosphere and corona). We quantify the height expansion of the plage magnetic fields and find that the magnetic fields expand significantly in the middle chromosphere, shaping the moss observed above in the transition region and corona. We identified an area with polarity reversal at the upper chromosphere around the edge of the pore, suggesting the presence of a magnetic discontinuity in the upper chromosphere. Transient and recurrent jetlike events are observed in this region, likely driven by magnetic reconnection. Around the penumbral edge, we find large-scale magnetic fields corresponding to the superpenumbral fibrils seen in the upper chromosphere. In the superpenumbral fibrils, we find Zeeman-induced linear polarization signals, suggesting the presence of a significantly inclined magnetic field, as strong as 1000 G in the upper chromosphere.