On Signatures of Twisted Magnetic Flux Tube Emergence |
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Authors: | S Vargas Domínguez D MacTaggart L Green L van Driel-Gesztelyi A W Hood |
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Institution: | (1) Instituto de Astronom?a y F?sica del Espacio, CONICET-UBA, CC. 67, Suc. 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina;(2) Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, FCEN-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina;(3) Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR8109 (CNRS), 92195 Meudon Principal Cedex, France;(4) UCL – Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK;(5) Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | Recent studies of NOAA active region 10953, by Okamoto et al. (Astrophys. J. Lett.
673, 215, 2008; Astrophys. J.
697, 913, 2009), have interpreted photospheric observations of changing widths of the polarities and reversal of the horizontal magnetic
field component as signatures of the emergence of a twisted flux tube within the active region and along its internal polarity
inversion line (PIL). A filament is observed along the PIL and the active region is assumed to have an arcade structure. To
investigate this scenario, MacTaggart and Hood (Astrophys. J. Lett.
716, 219, 2010) constructed a dynamic flux emergence model of a twisted cylinder emerging into an overlying arcade. The photospheric signatures
observed by Okamoto et al. (2008, 2009) are present in the model although their underlying physical mechanisms differ. The model also produces two additional signatures
that can be verified by the observations. The first is an increase in the unsigned magnetic flux in the photosphere at either
side of the PIL. The second is the behaviour of characteristic photospheric flow profiles associated with twisted flux tube
emergence. We look for these two signatures in AR 10953 and find negative results for the emergence of a twisted flux tube
along the PIL. Instead, we interpret the photospheric behaviour along the PIL to be indicative of photospheric magnetic cancellation
driven by flows from the dominant sunspot. Although we argue against flux emergence within this particular region, the work
demonstrates the important relationship between theory and observations for the successful discovery and interpretation of
signatures of flux emergence. |
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