Sunspots and large-scale magnetic fields at various heights

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Jun 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011bcrao.107...43p&link_type=abstract

Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Volume 107, Issue 1, pp.43-50

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Sunspots, Large-Scale Structures Of Magnetic Fields

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Height variation of the magnetic field structure over groups of sunspots for heights ranging from the photosphere to the source surface ( R = 2.5 Ro, where Ro is the radius of the Sun) is examined. For all heights, starting from the photospheric level, groups of sunspot are shown as being independent of long-lived boundaries of large-scale structures rotating with a period shorter than the Carrington period. At heights of 1-1.5 Ro, there is a clear relation between sunspot groups and boundaries separating the head and tail sunspots in the groups (the Hale boundaries). The rotation periods of these structures are close to the Carrington period, their lifespan being less than three to five rotations. The maximal intensity of the solar magnetic field drops by two orders when height increases from H = 1 to H = 1.1 Ro. Further decrease in intensity proceeds gradually (dropping by one order from H = 1.1 to 2.5 Ro). The results obtained can be considered as evidence that large-scale magnetic field structures and long-lived boundries between them (the lines dividing polarities of the magnetic field or zero lines) all exist irrespective of sunspot fields being generated by other sources than sunspots. At the photospheric level, active regions fields are superimposed on these structures.

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