Characteristic Dependence of Umbral Dots on their Magnetic Structure

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2009-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2750v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

22 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Umbral dots (UDs) were observed in a stable sunspot in NOAA 10944 by the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope on 2007 March 1. The observation program consisted of blue continuum images and spectropolarimetric profiles of Fe I 630 nm line. An automatic detection algorithm for UDs was applied to the 2-hour continuous blue continuum images, and using the obtained data, the lifetime, size, and proper motion of UDs were calculated. The magnetic structure of the sunspot was derived through the inversion of the spectropolarimetric profiles. We calculated the correlations between UD's parameters (size, lifetime, occurrence rate, proper motion) and magnetic fields (field strength, inclination, azimuth), and obtained the following results: (1) Both the lifetime and size of UDs are almost constant regardless of the magnetic field strength at their emergence site. (2) The speed of UDs increases as the field inclination angle at their emergence site gets larger. (3) The direction of movement of UDs is nearly parallel to the direction of the horizontal component of magnetic field in the region with strongly inclined field, while UDs in the region with weakly inclined field show virtually no proper motion. Our results describe the basic properties of magnetoconvection in sunspots. We will discuss our results in comparison to recent MHD simulations by Schussler & Vogler (2006) and Rempel et al. (2009).

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