Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21640114t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #401.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.859
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In order to check if the helicity imbalance is robust between the leading and following polarities, found by Tian & Alexander, we use an improved technique, differential affline velocity estimator (DAVE), on series of MDI 1m and 96m line-of-sight magnetograms with spatial resolution of 0.6 and 2 arcsecs. respectively, to measure photospheric flow motions of an emerging active region: NOAA 10365 (S08). A better parameter of helicity density (Gθ) than GA is employed to calculate helicity injection rate of leading and following polarities.
Our results display that the helicity injection rate of using MDI/1m data is 2 times larger than that of using MDI/ 96m data. The helicity injection rate is little affected by the size of apodizing window selected and the noise level (20 Gauss). However, it is improved so much due to decreasing time difference (up to Δt=10 mines) of two images tracked. The helicity injection rate of two polarities of the active region developed as roughly same step with flux emergence,and maintain its imbalance with more amount in the negative (leading) polarity over tracking period of three days, which is a similar development tendency no matter using MDI/1m data or MDI/96m data.
These results reflect that the time difference of two tracking images is the most important factor affecting amount of helicity injection rate, while there is little relation with spatial resolution of data, the size of apodizing window, and the noise level. Therefore, it should be reliable to study the development of helicity injection rate and imbalanced relationship of two polarities when using MDI/96m data, though the amount calculated is two times smaller.
Further test for MDI/96m data of ARs 8214 and 0656 confirm that the helicity imbalance indeed exists between the leading and following polarities.
Alexander Dave
Tian Lirong
Zhu Chenchang
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