The east-west inclination of magnetic field lines in sunspots

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992soph..137..205h&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 137, Feb. 1992, p. 205-213.

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Magnetic Field Configurations, Solar Magnetic Field, Sunspots, Faculae, Solar Rotation

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Digitized Mount Wilson sunspot data covering the interval from 1917 to 1985 are analyzed to examine the average areas of individual sunspot umbrae over small zones of central meridian distance. Assuming that systematic, east-west differences in these quantities are due to the inclination of the magnetic fields of the spots, one can calculate average east-west inclination angles for all spots and for subsets of the full data set. It is found from such an analysis that on average spot fields are inclined such as to trail the rotation by a few deg. Leading and following spots may show a tendency to be inclined slightly away from each other, in contrast to the results of an earlier study of plage magnetic fields. Growing spots tend to be inclined much more to the east than decaying spots. This is in the opposite sense to the analogous result derived from plage magnetic fields.

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