Simple models for magnetic flux tubes

✍ Scribed by G. W. Simon; N. O. Weiss; A. H. Nye

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 510 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00151161

✦ Synopsis

Known potential field solutions can be used to model the structure of magnetic fields in the solar photosphere. Several two-dimensional and axisymmetric solutions are compared. In the most satisfactory model the vertical component of the field is prescribed on a horizontal plane so as to be uniform within a finite disc and zero outside it. The resulting flux distribution provides a good description of small scale intergranular magnetic fields and of the observed field structure in a pore, but is inadequate for sunspots.