Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2000
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Solar Physics, v. 191, Issue 2, p. 281-292 (2000).
Physics
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Scientific paper
We investigate a latitude-time distribution of polar faculae observed at Ussuriysk Observatory in years 1966-1986. The distribution is compared with the longitude-averaged (zonal) magnetic field of the Sun calculated from the data obtained at Mount Wilson Observatory in the years 1966-1976, and at Kitt Peak National Observatory during the period from 1976 to 1985. We found that slow, poleward-directed migration of the polar faculae zones occurring during the course of the solar cycle is not a continuous process, but it contains several episodes of appearance and fast poleward drift of new zones of polar faculae. At the rising phase of the solar cycle, new zones of polar faculae appear at latitudes as low as 40°, but the ones observed during the declining phase of the solar cycle originate at higher latitudes of 50-55°. Such episodes of appearance and fast migration of the polar faculae zones are associated with the poleward-directed streams of magnetic field originated at low latitudes. Moreover, we found some evidence for existence of an additional component of the polar faculae activity that reveals an equatorward migration during the course of the solar cycle. We also investigated a relationship between the number of polar faculae, n, and absolute magnetic flux Φ_z of the zonal mode of the solar magnetic field. We found that within the polar zones of the Sun, substantial correlation between temporal variations of n and Φ_z takes place both on the time scale of the solar cycle and on a shorter time scale of 2-4 years. The relationship between the number of polar faculae and magnetic flux may be approximated by a linear dependence n=0.12Φ_z (where Φ_z is expressed in 10^21 Mx), except for time interval 1977 through 1980 for which the factor of proportionality is found to have a systematically larger value of 0.20.
Erofeev D. V.
Erofeeva A. V.
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