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We present a new mathematically rigorous analysis tool (Schuck et al. 2022), based on Gauss' 1839 method for analyzing terrestrial magnetic fields, that extracts attribution from photospheric vector magnetogram observations and answers the question ``what is the source of the photospheric magnetic field, the convection zone or corona?'' We apply this powerful 19th-century method to SDO/HMI observations of NOAA AR 12673 to disentangle the photospheric magnetic field produced by these two source regions. This allows us to generate paired photospheric vector magnetograms for the fields produced by coronal sources and for fields produced by convection zone sources. From these analyses, we demonstrate that bare current channels are supported by the solar corona and that these coronal current channels can be a significant source of the radial component of the magnetic field in the photosphere. [mehr]

Katja Poppenhaeger is the leader of the research section on "Stellar Physics and Exoplanets" at AIP and a professor at the University of Potsdam. She investigates exoplanets and their atmospheres, particularly in the environment created by their host stars through irradiation and magnetic effects. Her group uses both observations in several wavelength regimes as well as numerical simulations to increase our understanding of exoplanets and their host stars. [mehr]