Differential rotation of the sun's magnetic field pattern

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Rotating Environments, Solar Interior, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Angular Velocity, Autocorrelation, Convection, Helioseismology, Magnetic Flux, Solar Rotation

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The sun's differential rotation is determined, using the pattern of solar magnetic fields as a tracer. An autocorrelation analysis on a 26-yr synoptic data set of magnetic fields sampled at the sun's central meridian produces a differential rotation law that is well-determined all the way to the poles of the sun. This law is very different from that derived from cross-correlation analysis of flux patterns in daily magnetograms by Snodgrass (1983). It is suggested that the differences may be explained if the surface magnetic flux is constantly being replenished over a time scale of weeks by new flux emitted from the source region, which is probably near the bottom of the convection zone.

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