DYNAMICS OF MULTI-CORED MAGNETIC STRUCTURES IN THE QUIET SUN

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2015 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/79· OSTI ID:22525495

Requerey, Iker S.; Rubio, Luis R. Bellot ^[1]; Pillet, Valentín Martínez ^[2]; Solanki, Sami K. ^[3]; Schmidt, Wolfgang ^[4]

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1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Apdo. de Correos 3004, E-18080 Granada (Spain)
2. National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO 80303 (United States)
3. Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, D-37077, Göttingen (Germany)
4. Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, D-79104, Freiburg (Germany)

We report on the dynamical interaction of quiet-Sun magnetic fields and granular convection in the solar photosphere as seen by Sunrise. We use high spatial resolution (0.″15–0.″18) and temporal cadence (33 s) spectropolarimetric Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment data, together with simultaneous CN and Ca ii H filtergrams from Sunrise Filter Imager. We apply the SIR inversion code to the polarimetric data in order to infer the line of sight velocity and vector magnetic field in the photosphere. The analysis reveals bundles of individual flux tubes evolving as a single entity during the entire 23 minute data set. The group shares a common canopy in the upper photospheric layers, while the individual tubes continually intensify, fragment and merge in the same way that chains of bright points in photometric observations have been reported to do. The evolution of the tube cores are driven by the local granular convection flows. They intensify when they are “compressed” by surrounding granules and split when they are “squeezed” between two moving granules. The resulting fragments are usually later regrouped in intergranular lanes by the granular flows. The continual intensification, fragmentation and coalescence of flux results in magnetic field oscillations of the global entity. From the observations we conclude that the magnetic field oscillations first reported by Martínez González et al. correspond to the forcing by granular motions and not to characteristic oscillatory modes of thin flux tubes.

• OSTI ID: 22525495
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 810; ISSN ASJOAB; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
CALCIUM
COALESCENCE
CONVECTION
CYANIDES
GRANULATION
LAYERS
MAGNETIC CORES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
OSCILLATIONS
PHOTOSPHERE
POLARIMETRY
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
SUN
VELOCITY