Sunspot group areas and the latitude distance from the average latitude of activity

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Oct 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991soph..135..339h&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 135, Oct. 1991, p. 339-342.

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Latitude, Solar Activity, Sunspots, Digital Data, Spatial Distribution

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Digitized Mount Wilson sunspot data from 1917 to 1985 are analyzed to examine group areas as a function of latitude distance from the central latitude of activity in each hemisphere. On average these group areas are larger for the smallest absolute values of latitude distance. The effect is similar to that seen for the magnetic fields of active regions (Howard, 1991). It is concluded that this is fundamentally a dependence on latitude distance, and not a latitude dependence. The suggestion is made that the cause of this effect is the influence of large-scale convective motions on the rising flux tubes that make up the active regions. The smaller flux tubes (spot groups) are more easily displaced in latitude during their ascent to the surface by this velocity field than are the larger flux tubes.

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