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Bipolar Magnetic Regions (BMRs) that appear on the solar photosphere are surface manifestations of the Suns internal magnetic field. With modern observations and continuous data streams, the study of BMRs has moved from manual sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Anu Sreedevi , Bidya Binay Karak , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Rambahadur Gupta , Dipankar Banerjee

The tilt angles of sunspot groups represent the poloidal field source in Babcock-Leighton-type models of the solar dynamo and are crucial for the build-up and reversals of the polar fields in Surface Flux Transport (SFT) simulations. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Jiang , R. H. Cameron , M. Schuessler

A theory of the mean tilt of sunspot bipolar regions (the angle between a line connecting the leading and following sunspots and the solar equator) is developed. A mechanism of formation of the mean tilt is related to the effect of Coriolis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 N. Kleeorin , N. Safiullin , K. Kuzanyan , I. Rogachevskii , A. Tlatov , S. Porshnev

Long observational series for bipolar active regions (ARs) provide significant information about the mutual transformation of the poloidal and toroidal components of the global solar magnetic field. The direction of the toroidal field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Zhukova , A. Khlystova , V. Abramenko , D. Sokoloff

We applied automatic identification of sunspot umbrae and penumbrae to daily observations from the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study their magnetic flux (B) and area (A). The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Andrey G. Tlatov , Alexei A. Pevtsov

An analysis of the tilt angles of the active regions in 15-24 activity cycles was performed. We used data from measurements of magnetic fields in the sunspot umbra in the period 1918 -2019 at the Mount Wilson Observatory, as well as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Andrey Tlatov

Bipolar active regions in both hemispheres tend to be tilted with respect to the East West equator of the Sun in accordance with Joys law that describes the average tilt angle as a function of latitude. Mt. Wilson observatory data from 1917…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Bruce H. McClintock , Aimee A. Norton

Sunspot positions from various historical sets of solar drawings are analysed with respect to the tilt angles of bipolar sunspot groups. Data by Scheiner, Hevelius, Staudacher, Zucconi, Schwabe, and Spoerer deliver a series of average tilt…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. Senthamizh Pavai , R. Arlt , A. Diercke , C. Denker , J. M. Vaquero

Data from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) are analyzed from 1996 to 2023 to investigate tilt angles ($\gamma$) of bipolar magnetic regions and Joy's Law for Cycles 23, 24, and a portion of 25.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Lucy W. Will , Aimee A. Norton , Jon Todd Hoeksema

The tilt of the bipolar magnetic region (BMR) is crucial in the Babcock-Leighton process for the generation of the poloidal magnetic field in the Sun. We extend the work of Jha et al. (2020) and analyze the recently reported tracked BMR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Anu B. Sreedevi , Bidya Binay Karak , Dipankar Banerjee

We study the latitudinal distribution of sunspots observed from 1874 to 2009 using the center-of-latitude (COL). We calculate COL by taking the area-weighted mean latitude of sunspots for each calendar month. We then form the latitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Heon-Young Chang

Using SDO/HMI and SDO/AIA data for sunspot groups of the 24th solar cycle, we analyzed magnetic properties and He II 304 emission in leading and following sunspots separately. Simultaneous examination of umbral magnetic properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Iu. S. Zagainova , V. G. Fainshtein , V. N. Obridko

Recent studies of the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) have detected interesting, systematic hemispherical and longitudinal asymmetries which have a profound significance for the understanding of solar magnetic fields. The in situ HMF…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Mursula , T. Hiltula

The tilt of bipolar magnetic region (BMR) is crucial in the Babcock--Leighton process for the generation of the poloidal magnetic field in Sun. Based on the thin flux tube model of the BMR formation, the tilt is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Bidya Binay Karak , Sudip Mandal , Dipankar Banerjee

Large and magnetically complex sunspot groups are known to be associated with flares. To date, the Mount Wilson scheme has been used to classify sunspot groups based on their morphological and magnetic properties. The most flare prolific…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sreejith Padinhatteeri , Paul A. Higgins , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

Stellar magnetic fields are poorly understood but are known to be important for stellar evolution and exoplanet habitability. They drive stellar activity, which is the main observational constraint on theoretical models for magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 M. Bazot , M. B. Nielsen , D. Mary , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , O. Benomar , P. Petit , L. Gizon , K. R. Sreenivasan , T. R. White

The spatial and temporal distributions of solar filaments were analyzed using data from the Meudon Observatory for the period 1919-2003 and the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station for the period 1979-2014. We scanned $H_\alpha$ solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 A. G. Tlatov , K. M. Kuzanyan , V. V. Vasil'yeva

Digital images of the observations printed in the books "Rosa Ursina sive solis" and "Prodromus pro sole mobili" by Christoph Scheiner as well as the drawings from Scheiner's letters to Marcus Welser are analysed in order to obtain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. Arlt , V. Senthamizh Pavai , C. Schmiel , F. Spada

Bipolar sunspots, or more generally, Bipolar Magnetic Regions, BMRs, are the dynamic magnetic regions that appear on the solar surface and are central to solar activity. One striking feature of these regions is that they are often tilted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Anu Sreedevi , Bidya Binay Karak , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Rambahadur Gupta , Dipankar Banerjee

Polarity imbalance of the photospheric magnetic field was studied using synoptic maps of NSO Kitt Peak (1976-2016). Imbalance of positive and negative fluxes was considered for the fields with strength B>50 G in the sunspot zone (5 deg - 40…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 E. S. Vernova , M. I. Tyasto , D. G. Baranov , O. A. Danilova