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Fine Magnetic Characteristics of a Light Bridge by Hinode

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-05-07 v2

Abstract

Light bridge (LB) is bright structure crossing the umbra of sunspots and associated to the breakup or assembly of sunspots. In this paper, a LB is presented and studied using the observatory data obtained by {\it Hinode} satellites. Force-free factor (α\alpha) and the z-component of current (JzJ_{z}) and tension force (TzT_{z}) are calculated basing on the vector magnetograms observed by Spectro-Polarimeter (SP) of the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board {\it Hinode}. It is found that the amplitudes of α\alpha and JzJ_{z} of LB are generally larger than those of umbra. It is found that there are two signs of JzJ_{z} along LB, which are divided at near the middle position of LB. It is found that the amplitudes of TzT_{z} of LB are smaller than those of umbra and there are changes of sign of TzT_{z} between the boundary of LB and umbra. Through comparisons and investigations, it suggest that LB and umbra maybe two different magnetic systems, which is a necessary condition for interaction magnetic reconnection.

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@article{arxiv.1902.00348,
  title  = {Fine Magnetic Characteristics of a Light Bridge by Hinode},
  author = {S. Liu and D. Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00348},
  year   = {2019}
}

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22 pages, 6 Figures,