On the spatial distribution of magnetic fields on the solar surface

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Apr 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...443..434t&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 443, no. 1, p. 434-443

Statistics

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Advection, Fractals, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Transition Region, Spatial Distribution, Magnetic Flux, Random Processes, Turbulence Models

Scientific paper

Recent measurements of solar surface magnetic fields suggest that the spatial distribution of these fields is fractal. In order to understand the physical basis for such geometric complexity, we study here the advection of magnetic flux tubes relatively simple random motions on the surface of a fluid and investigate the spatial statistics of the resulting surface field. While this study does not directly address the question of why solar surface fields have the observed spatial structure, it is designed to build our intuition about how surface flows lead to complex spatial structuring of magnetic fields. As part of our study, we discuss the various methods by which one can describe the spatial distribution of the surface magnetic flux and relate them mathematically; this turns out to be a crucial point of our work since, as we show, a number of previous analyses have misinterpreted the analysis procedures for determining fractal dimensions. Our principal result is the explicit demonstration that simple random flows lead to magnetic flux spatial distributions with a multifractal dimension spectrum. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this magnetic spatial structure is generic, i.e., is characteristic of a very large class of random flows.

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