Changes in measured vector magnetic fields when transformed into heliographic coordinates

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Sep 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987soph..107..239h&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 107, no. 2, 1987, p. 239-246. NASA-USAF-supported research.

Physics

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Astronomical Coordinates, Photosphere, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Maximum Mission, Sunspots, Current Density, Electric Current, Line Of Sight, Potential Fields, Umbras

Scientific paper

The changes that occur in measured magnetic fields when they are transformed into a heliographic coordinate system are investigated. To carry out this investigation, measurements of the vector magnetic field of an active region that was observed at 1/3 the solar radius from disk center are taken, and the observed field is transformed into heliographic coordinates. Differences in the calculated potential field that occur when the heliographic normal component of the field is used as the boundary condition rather than the observed line-of-sight component are also examined. The results of this analysis show: (1) that the observed fields of sunspots more closely resemble the generally accepted picture of the distribution of umbral fields if they are displayed in heliographic coordinates; (2) that the differences in the potential calculations are less than 200 G in field strength and 20 deg in field azimuth outside sunspots; and (3) that differences in the two potential calculations in the sunspot areas are no more than 400 G in field strength but range from 60 to 80 deg in field azimuth in localized umbral areas.

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