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$\begin{figure} \resizebox{18cm}{!}{ \includegraphics{8371fig1.eps}}\end{figure}$ Figure 1: Columns a)- c): observational data obtained with the spectro-polarimeter of Hinode/SOT. Columns d) and f): synthetic data from the 3D MHD simulation. Columns e) and g): same as d) and f) but after application of the SOT-PSF to the synthetic intensity maps. Rows from top to bottom: the sign of the Stokes-V area asymmetry for the line Fe I 630.25 nm, where black and white correspond to negative and positive, respectively, the Fe I 630.15 nm line-wing velocity in km s^-1, $V_{\rm {tot}}$ of Fe I 630.25 nm in mÅ, and the continuum intensity at 630.0 nm. Contours refer to $V_{\rm {tot}}$ . Distance between tick marks is $0.5\hbox {$^{\prime \prime }$ }$ .
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$\begin{figure} \par\includegraphics[width=70mm]{8371fig2.eps}\end{figure}$ Figure 2: Variation in $\delta A$ across magnetic elements from the Hinode data (top row) and the simulation (bottom row). From left to right and top to bottom, the sections are taken from the data corresponding to Cols. a, b, d, and f of Fig. 1.
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$\begin{figure} \par\includegraphics[width=73mm]{8371fig3.eps}\end{figure}$ Figure 3: Vertical cross section through the simulation box corresponding to position $y=1.15\hbox {$^{\prime \prime }$ }$ of the column d of Fig. 1. It displays the logarithmic magnetic field strength (from 1.0 to 10^2.3 mT, colour-coded), together with the velocity field, projected on the vertical plane (white arrows) and the electric current density normal to the plane (black contours). Optical depth $\tau_{500~{\rm nm}}\! =\! 1$ is shown as well. The white vertical lines indicate the ranges in which Stokes-V profiles from vertical lines-of-sight have either positive or negative area asymmetry, $\delta A$ . Outside this range, the Stokes-V signal is below the $3\sigma$ noise level of the observations. $\delta A(x)$ is plotted in the lower left panel of Fig. 2.
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$\begin{figure} \par\includegraphics[width=15.5cm,clip]{8371fig4.eps}\end{figure}$ Figure 4: Stokes-V profiles from the Hinode data across the magnetic element of column b of Fig. 1. $\delta A(x)$ for the same section is shown in Fig. 2 ( top right panel).
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$\begin{figure} \par\includegraphics[width=70mm]{8371fig2.eps}\end{figure}$	Figure 2: Variation in $\delta A$ across magnetic elements from the Hinode data (top row) and the simulation (bottom row). From left to right and top to bottom, the sections are taken from the data corresponding to Cols. a, b, d, and f of Fig. 1.
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$\begin{figure} \par\includegraphics[width=15.5cm,clip]{8371fig4.eps}\end{figure}$	Figure 4: Stokes-V profiles from the Hinode data across the magnetic element of column b of Fig. 1. $\delta A(x)$ for the same section is shown in Fig. 2 ( top right panel).
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