English

Small-scale solar surface magnetism

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-06-01 v1

Abstract

This contribution to "Solar Magnetic Variability and Climate" reviews small-scale magnetic features on the solar surface, in particular the strong-field but tiny magnetic concentrations that constitute network and plage and represent most magnetism outside sunspots and filaments. Where these are mostly of the same polarity, as in active-region plage, their occurrence varies with the activity variations measured by the sunspot number, but when they appear bipolar-mixed on small scales they can also result from granular-scale dynamo action that does not vary with the cycle.

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@article{arxiv.2105.14533,
  title  = {Small-scale solar surface magnetism},
  author = {Robert J. Rutten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.14533},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Brief review in monograph "Solar Magnetic Variability and Climate" by C. de Jager, S. Duhau, A.C.T. Nieuwenhuizen, 2020, Stip Media, Alkmaar

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