scholarly journals High-resolution observations of the polar magnetic fields of the sun

Solar Physics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Lin ◽  
J. Varsik ◽  
H. Zirin
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S340) ◽  
pp. 198-199
Author(s):  
Nancy Narang ◽  
Kalugodu Chandrashekhar ◽  
Vaibhav Pant ◽  
Dipankar Banerjee

AbstractRecent dedicated HINODE polar region campaign revealed the presence of concentrated kilogauss patches of magnetic field in the polar regions of Sun which are also shown to be correlated with facular bright points at the photospheric level. In this work, we demonstrate that this spatial intermittency of the magnetic field persists even up to the chromospheric heights. Polar network bright points are the ones which are present in the polar regions of the Sun (above 70° latitudes). We use special HINODE campaigns devoted to observe polar regions of the Sun to study the polar network bright points during the phase of last extended solar minimum. We are able to find a considerable association between the polar network bright points and magnetic field concentrations which led us to conclude that these bright points can serve as a good proxy for polar magnetic fields where the direct and regular measurements of polar magnetic fields are not available (before 1970).


2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (14) ◽  
pp. 273-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena E. Benevolenskaya

AbstractThe polar magnetic fields on the Sun have been an attractive subject for solar researches since Babcock measured them in solar cycle 19. One of the remarkable features of the polar magnetic fields is their reversal during the maxima of 11-year sunspot cycles. I have present results of the investigations of the polar magnetic field using SOHO-mdi data. It is found, that the polar magnetic field reversal is detected with mdi data for polar region within 78°–88°. The North Pole has changed polarity in CR1975 (April 2001). The South reversed later in CR1980 (September 2001). The total unsigned magnetic flux does not show the dramatic decreasing during the polar reversals due to omnipresent bi-polar small-scale magnetic elements. The observational and theoretical aspects of the polar magnetic field reversals are discussed.


Solar Physics ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Howard

1971 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Janssens ◽  
Neal K. Baker

The Aerospace – NASA Videomagnetograph began operation one month ago, two years after components were ordered and construction began. The design grew out of a desire to obtain magnetic fields in real time using an optical filter. The aim was to study and analyze magnetic configurations and changes, quantitatively if possible, with high spatial and temporal resolution and as much sensitivity as possible. This instrument is restricted to the line-of-sight component of the magnetic field and is primarily intended for high resolution studies of selected regions of the sun. The rationale behind our approach is shown in the next section and the design details in the following.


1993 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 184-187
Author(s):  
Robert J. Rutten ◽  
Luc Damé

AbstractThe magnetic fields of the Sun provide the major incentive to do solar physics. The small spatial extent of the magnetically constrained structures and processes in the solar atmosphere provide the major incentive for high resolution solar telescopes. The visibility of the outer solar atmosphere in the ultraviolet and X-ray domains provide the major incentive for solar space telescopes. Cost provides the major incentive to use interferometric techniques. SIMURIS employs short-wave interferometry from space to measure solar structures and processes with high resolution.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 945
Author(s):  
Anton Savostianov ◽  
Alexander Shapoval ◽  
Mikhail Shnirman

We establish the similarity in two model-based reconstructions of the coupling between the polar magnetic fields of the Sun represented by the solar faculae time series. The reconstructions are inferred from the pair of the coupled oscillators modelled with the Van der Pol and Kuramoto equations. They are associated with the substantial simplification of solar dynamo models and, respectively, a simple ad hoc model reproducing the phenomenon of synchronization. While the polar fields are synchronized, both of the reconstruction procedures restore couplings, which attain moderate values and follow each other rather accurately as the functions of time. We also estimate the evolution of the phase difference between the polar fields and claim that they tend to move apart more quickly than approach each other.


2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 263-264
Author(s):  
K. Sundara Raman ◽  
K. B. Ramesh ◽  
R. Selvendran ◽  
P. S. M. Aleem ◽  
K. M. Hiremath

Extended AbstractWe have examined the morphological properties of a sigmoid associated with an SXR (soft X-ray) flare. The sigmoid is cospatial with the EUV (extreme ultra violet) images and in the optical part lies along an S-shaped Hαfilament. The photoheliogram shows flux emergence within an existingδtype sunspot which has caused the rotation of the umbrae giving rise to the sigmoidal brightening.It is now widely accepted that flares derive their energy from the magnetic fields of the active regions and coronal levels are considered to be the flare sites. But still a satisfactory understanding of the flare processes has not been achieved because of the difficulties encountered to predict and estimate the probability of flare eruptions. The convection flows and vortices below the photosphere transport and concentrate magnetic field, which subsequently appear as active regions in the photosphere (Rust & Kumar 1994 and the references therein). Successive emergence of magnetic flux, twist the field, creating flare productive magnetic shear and has been studied by many authors (Sundara Ramanet al.1998 and the references therein). Hence, it is considered that the flare is powered by the energy stored in the twisted magnetic flux tubes (Kurokawa 1996 and the references therein). Rust & Kumar (1996) named the S-shaped bright coronal loops that appear in soft X-rays as ‘Sigmoids’ and concluded that this S-shaped distortion is due to the twist developed in the magnetic field lines. These transient sigmoidal features tell a great deal about unstable coronal magnetic fields, as these regions are more likely to be eruptive (Canfieldet al.1999). As the magnetic fields of the active regions are deep rooted in the Sun, the twist developed in the subphotospheric flux tube penetrates the photosphere and extends in to the corona. Thus, it is essentially favourable for the subphotospheric twist to unwind the twist and transmit it through the photosphere to the corona. Therefore, it becomes essential to make complete observational descriptions of a flare from the magnetic field changes that are taking place in different atmospheric levels of the Sun, to pin down the energy storage and conversion process that trigger the flare phenomena.


2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
D. M. Rust

AbstractSolar filaments are discussed in terms of two contrasting paradigms. The standard paradigm is that filaments are formed by condensation of coronal plasma into magnetic fields that are twisted or dimpled as a consequence of motions of the fields’ sources in the photosphere. According to a new paradigm, filaments form in rising, twisted flux ropes and are a necessary intermediate stage in the transfer to interplanetary space of dynamo-generated magnetic flux. It is argued that the accumulation of magnetic helicity in filaments and their coronal surroundings leads to filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections. These ejections relieve the Sun of the flux generated by the dynamo and make way for the flux of the next cycle.


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