Sunspot as an isolated magnetic structure: Stability and oscillations

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Jun 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008astbu..63..169s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Bulletin, Volume 63, Issue 2, pp.169-180

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7

96.60.Hv, 96.60.Ly

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A simple energy model of a sunspot as a compact magnetic feature is described where the main energy contribution is provided by the coolest and most compressed part of the magnetic force tube of the spot at depths ranging from Wilson’s depression level (300 500 km) down to 2 3 thousand km. The equilibrium and stability conditions for such a system are analyzed using the variation principle, and oscillations of the system as a whole about the inferred equilibrium position are studied. The sunspot is shown to be stable in the magnetic field strength interval from 0.8 1 to 4 5 kG. The dependence of the eigenfrequency on magnetic field strength ω( B) is computed for the main oscillatory mode, where only the umbra of the sunspot takes part in oscillations, ω = ω 1 ( B). Lower subharmonics may appear in the case where penumbra too becomes involved in the oscillatory process: ω 2 = ω 1/2, ω 3 = ω 1/3. Theoretical curves agree well with the observational data obtained in Pulkovo using various independent methods: from temporal variations of sunspot magnetic field and from line-of-sight-velocity measurements. The periods of oscillations found range from 40 to 200 minutes.

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