Vortex flow in the solar photosphere

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Sep 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988natur.335..238b&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 335, Sept. 15, 1988, p. 238-240.

Physics

72

Convective Flow, Magnetic Flux, Photosphere, Solar Atmosphere, Vortices, Flow Distribution, Line Of Sight, Solar Granulation

Scientific paper

The authors report a very high-quality series of solar granulation images taken at the new Swedish Solar Observatory on La Palma which have permitted flow measurements at the sub-arcsec level. These movies show a vortex structure which visibly dominates the motion of the granules in its neighbourhood and persists for the 1.5 h duration of the movie. If such vortices are a common feature of the solar convective zone, they may provide an important mechanism for the heating of stellar chromospheres and coronae by twisting the footprints of magnetic flux tubes. See also 071.024.

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