Solar Photosphere: Faculae

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2253c&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2253. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Sun, Solar Atmosphere

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Photospheric faculae, often called white-light faculae, are best seen away from the center of the solar disk beginning at a heliocentric angle of about 60°. They appear as irregular bright patches whose contrast increases towards the solar LIMB, and are more extensive when they accompany sunspot groups. Near the limb they tend to appear as facular granules. The facular granules consist of aggreg...

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