Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-02-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 4 figures, To appear in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/518123
Proper motions in a sunspot group with a delta-configuration and close to the solar disc center have been studied by employing local correlation tracking techniques. The analysis is based on more than one hour time series of G-band images. Radial outflows with a mean speed of 0.67 km s^{-1} have been detected around the spots, the well-known sunspots moats. However, these outflows are not found in those umbral core sides without penumbra. Moreover, moat flows are only found in those sides of penumbrae located in the direction marked by the penumbral filaments. Penumbral sides perpendicular to them show no moat flow. These results strongly suggest a relation between the moat flow and the well-known, filament aligned, Evershed flow. The standard picture of a moat flow originated from a blocking of the upward propagation of heat is commented in some detail.
Bonet Jose Antonio
der Voort Luc Rouppe van
Dominguez Santiago Vargas
Katsukawa Yukio
Kitakoshi Y.
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