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On the presence of electric currents in the solar atmosphere

✍ Scribed by M. Hagyard; B. C. Low; E. Tandberg-Hanssen

Publisher
Springer
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
477 KB
Volume
73
Category
Article
ISSN
0038-0938

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✦ Synopsis

An elementary analysis based on Amp6re's Law is given to separate the general magnetic field above the photosphere into two parts B = BI + B*. The field B1 is a potential field due to electric currents below the photosphere. The field B* is produced by electric currents above the photosphere combined with the induced mirror currents. By symmetry, B* has a set of field lines lying entirely in the plane z = 0 taken to be the photosphere. This set of field lines can be constructed from given vector magnetograph measurements and represents all the information on the electric currents above the photosphere that a magnetograph can provide. Theoretical illustrations are given and the implications for data analysis are discussed.

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