Evidence for non-potential magnetic fields in the quiet Sun

Details Evidence for non-potential magnetic fields in the quiet Sun Evidence for non-potential magnetic fields in the quiet Sun

Feb 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999soph..184..239w&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, v. 184, Issue 2, p. 239-247 (1999).

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A comparison of BBSO Hα centerline filtergrams and videomagnetograms was made to investigate the existence of non- potential magnetic fields in the quiet Sun near magnetic network. We use the fibril structure in the Hα images as a proxy for the horizontal chromospheric magnetic field which we compare with the horizontal field obtained by potential extrapolation of the observed, line-of-sight photospheric field. The quiet-Sun field was found to be consistently and significantly non-potential in each of the three fields of view studied. A transient extreme ultraviolet (EUV) brightening, known as a blinker, occurred during the observations of a region where the field is highly non-potential, suggesting a connection between magnetic reconnection and non-potentiality.

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