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Self-Ordering of Photospheric Magnetic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

J. K. Lawrence
J. K. Lawrence*
Affiliation:
San Fernando Observatory Department of Physics and Astronomy California State University, Northridge Northridge, California 91330, U. S. A.

Abstract

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We model the evolution of photospheric field elements by treating them as mean field structures undergoing a nonlinear self-interaction mediated by much smaller-scale, convectively driven plasma turbulence. Distributed fields can gather into discrete, strong elements of a minimum permitted scale. Also studied are the transport of flux from dissolving elements and to growing elements via weak intermediate fields and the cancellation of adjacent emements of opposite polarity.

Type
VI. Generation of Solar Magnetic Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 138: Solar Photosphere: Structure, Convection and Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 383 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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