Solar Active Regions: Ephemeral

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2275h&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2275. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Sun, Solar Activity

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Magnetic flux emerges through the surface of the Sun as bipolar regions with a wide range of sizes, such as shown in figure 1. Larger magnetic bipoles develop SUNSPOTS and are identified as ACTIVE REGIONS. Small bipolar regions, such as indicated in the lower panels of figure 1, are called ephemeral regions, a name given by H Dodson in 1953 because of their short lifetimes. Ephemeral regions have...

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