An anticorrelation between polar and equatorial rotation of the solar photosphere

Details An anticorrelation between polar and equatorial rotation of the solar photosphere An anticorrelation between polar and equatorial rotation of the solar photosphere

Apr 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975soph...41..297w&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, vol. 41, Apr. 1975, p. 297-300.

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Photosphere, Solar Cycles, Solar Rotation, Solar Wind, Angular Velocity, Equators, Polar Regions, Statistical Correlation

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Published spectroscopic measurements of solar rotation are analyzed to show that when the rotation velocity increases at high latitudes it tends to decrease at low latitudes, and that when the rotation velocity decreases at high latitudes it increases at low latitudes. The high-latitude velocities typically vary over only 20% of the range of those near the equator and the smallest variations of all occurred near latitude 60 deg during the rising portion of the previous solar cycle. The anticorrelation is consistent with a recent suggestion that differential rotation on the sun arises from photospheric wind systems whose strength is determined, ultimately, by oscillations within the sun.

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