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识别太阳巨对流尺度的潜在标记

Identifying Potential Markers of the Sun's Giant Convective Scale

Scott W. McIntosh, Xin Wang, Robert J. Leamon, Philip H. Scherrer

摘要:

太阳动力学天文台(SDO)的日震和磁成像仪(HMI)的视线磁图使用称为“影响磁范围”或MRoI的诊断进行分析。MRoI是光球磁图平衡的长度的量度,因此它的应用使用户对太阳外层大气的连接长度尺度有一种感觉。从SDO/HMI磁图推断的MRoI图和直方图主要表现出四个尺度:几兆米的尺度可以与颗粒化相关联,几十兆米的尺度可以与超级颗粒化相关联,几百到几千兆米的尺度可以与日冕洞和活动区域相关联,以及一个迄今为止未被注意到的范围从100到250兆米的规模。我们推断,这最终的规模是一个印记(旋转驱动)巨大的对流尺度光球磁性。这种尺度在磁共振成像图中表现为定义明确的、空间分布的浓度,我们称之为“g节点”。“此外,使用SDO上大气成像组件(AIA)的日冕观测,我们看到这些g节点附近似乎是极紫外线(EUV)和可能的X射线)亮点形成的首选位置。这些观测和简单的诊断提供了太阳最大对流尺度的近实时映射的潜力,该尺度可能达到对流区的最底部。

英文摘要:

Line-of-sight magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are analyzed using a diagnostic known as the "Magnetic Range of Influence," or MRoI. The MRoI is a measure of the length over which a photospheric magnetogram is balanced and so its application gives the user a sense of the connective length scales in the outer solar atmosphere. The MRoI maps and histograms inferred from the SDO/HMI magnetograms primarily exhibit four scales: a scale of a few megameters that can be associated with granulation, a scale of a few tens of megameters that can be associated with super-granulation, a scale of many hundreds to thousands of megameters that can be associated with coronal holes and active regions, and a hitherto unnoticed scale that ranges from 100 to 250 megameters. We infer that this final scale is an imprint of the (rotationally-driven) giant convective scale on photospheric magnetism. This scale appears in MRoI maps as well-defined, spatially distributed, concentrations that we have dubbed "g-nodes." Furthermore, using coronal observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on SDO, we see that the vicinity of these g-nodes appears to be a preferred location for the formation of extreme ultraviolet (EUV, and likely X-Ray) brightpoints. These observations and straightforward diagnostics offer the potential of a near-real-time mapping of the Sun's largest convective scale, a scale that possibly reaches to the very bottom of the convective zone.

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