Tilt-Angle Variations of Active Regions

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Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996soph..167...95h&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 167, Issue 1-2, pp. 95-113

Physics

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An examination of the tilt angles of multi-spot sunspot groups and plages shows that on average they tend to rotate toward the average tilt angle in each hemisphere. This average tilt angle is about twice as large for plages as it is for sunspot groups. The larger the deviation from the average tilt angle, the larger, on average, is the rotation of the magnetic axis in the direction of the average tilt angle. The rate of rotation of the magnetic axis is about twice as fast for sunspot groups as it is for plages. Growing plages and spot groups rotate their axes significantly faster than do decaying plages and spot groups. There is a latitude dependence of this effect that follows Joy's law. The fact that these tilt angles move toward the average tilt angle and not toward 0 deg (the east-west orientation), combined with other results presented here, suggest that a commonly accepted view of the origin of active region magnetic flux at the solar surface may have to be re-examined.

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