Magnetic rotation of the solar photosphere

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Jul 1983

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 270, July 1, 1983, p. 288-299.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

228

Photosphere, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Rotation, Cross Correlation, Magnetic Signatures, Sunspots

Scientific paper

Magnetograms made at Mt. Wilson Observatory from January 1967 to May 1982 are crosscorrelated in 34 latitude strips at 1-4-day increments to determine the rotation of magnetic features in the solar photosphere. The data are smoothed by averaging corresponding correlations and calculating rotation from the displacement of the averaged-correlation maximum; the usefulness and validity of this procedure are discussed. No significant time variation or field dependence is found for the period of the observations, at least to the accuracy of the calculated means (variance of from about 2 m/sec at low latitudes to about 10 m/sec near the poles). The rotation function omega at solar latitude phi is shown to be 2.902 0.464 sin sq phi - 0.328 sin to the 4th phi microrad/sec, in agreement with the Mt. Wilson Doppler profile near the poles and with the sunspot determination of Newton and Nunn (1951) at sunspot latitudes, where the Doppler estimate is about 30 m/sec slower.

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