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May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spd....40.0905k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #40, #9.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.818
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We estimate how much magnetic flux is lost in a decaying sunspot and how much magnetic flux is carried away from the sunspot through its surrounding moat region. A time series of spectropolarimetric measurements with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode allows us, for the first time, to investigate an accurate flux change without any effects of atmospheric seeing. The amount of magnetic flux that decreases in the sunspot and moat region is almost equal to that of magnetic flux transported to the outer boundary of the moat region. The flux loss rates of magnetic elements with positive and negative polarities are balanced each other around the outer boundary of the moat region. These results suggest that most of the magnetic flux in the sunspot is transported to the outer boundary of the moat region as moving magnetic features, and then removed from the photosphere by flux cancellation around the moat boundary.
Ichimoto Kiyoshi
Kubo Masahito
Lites Bruce W.
Shimizu Toshifumi
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