Institute's Seminars

Institute's Seminars

MPS Seminar: On the Origin of the Photospheric Magnetic Field (M. Linton)

  • Date: May 16, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mark Linton
  • Mark Linton (NRL), in collaboration with Peter Schuck (NASA/GSFC), Kalman Knizhnik (NRL), and James Leake (NASA/GSFC)
  • Location: MPS
  • Room: Lecture Hall
  • Host: Gherardo Valori
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. [more]
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