Transverse component of the magnetic field in the solar photosphere observed by Sunrise

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2010-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/1008.1535v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted for the Sunrise Special Issue of ApJL

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We present the first observations of the transverse component of photospheric magnetic field acquired by the imaging magnetograph Sunrise/IMaX. Using an automated detection method, we obtain statistical properties of 4536 features with significant linear polarization signal. Their rate of occurrence is 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than values reported by previous studies. We show that these features have no characteristic size or lifetime. They appear preferentially at granule boundaries with most of them being caught in downflow lanes at some point in their evolution. Only a small percentage are entirely and constantly embedded in upflows (16%) or downflows (8%).

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