Spatio-Temporal Scaling of Solar Surface Flows
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v4 Chaotic Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
The Sun provides an excellent natural laboratory for nonlinear phenomena. We use motions of magnetic bright points on the solar surface, at the smallest scales yet observed, to study the small scale dynamics of the photospheric plasma. The paths of the bright points are analyzed within a continuous time random walk framework. Their spatial and temporal scaling suggest that the observed motions are the walks of imperfectly correlated tracers on a turbulent fluid flow in the lanes between granular convection cells.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101224,
title = {Spatio-Temporal Scaling of Solar Surface Flows},
author = {J. K. Lawrence and A. C. Cadavid and A. Ruzmaikin and T. E. Berger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101224},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Now Accepted by Physical Review Letters