Emerging and Decaying Magnetic Flux and Subsurface Flows |
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Authors: | R Komm R Howe F Hill |
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Institution: | (1) National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA |
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Abstract: | We study the temporal variation of subsurface flows of 788 active regions and 978 quiet regions. The vertical-velocity component
used in this study is derived from the divergence of the measured horizontal flows using mass conservation. The horizontal
flows cover a range of depths from the surface to about 16 Mm and are determined by analyzing about five years of GONG high-resolution
Doppler data with ring-diagram analysis. We determine the change in unsigned magnetic flux during the disk passage of each
active region using MDI magnetograms binned to the ring-diagram grid. We then sort the data by their flux change from decaying
to emerging flux and divide the data into five subsets of equal size. The average vertical flows of the emerging-flux subset
are systematically shifted toward upflows compared to the grand average values of the complete data set, whereas the average
flows of the decaying-flux subset show comparably more pronounced downflows especially near 8 Mm. For flux emergence, upflows
become stronger with time with increasing flux at depths greater than about 10 Mm. At layers shallower than about 4 Mm, the
flows might start to change from downflows to upflows, when flux emerges, and then back to downflows after the active regions
are established. The flows in the layers between these two depth ranges show no response to the emerging flux. In the case
of decaying flux, the flows change from strong upflows to downflows at depths greater than about 10 Mm, whereas the flows
do not change systematically at other depths. A cross-correlation analysis shows that the flows in the near-surface and the
deeper layers might change about one day before flux emerges. The flows associated with the quiet regions fluctuate with time
but do not show any systematic variation. |
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Keywords: | Active regions velocity field Helioseismology observations Interior convective zone Velocity fields interior |
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