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Magnetic Helicity Propagation from Inside the Sun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Dana Longcope
Dana Longcope*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717

Abstract

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Models of twisted flux tube evolution provide a picture of how magnetic helicity is propagated through the solar convection zone into the corona. According to the models, helicity tends toward an approximately uniform length-density along a tube, rather than concentrating at wider portions. Coronal fields lengthen rapidly during active region emergence, requiring additional helicity to propagate from the submerged flux tube. Recent observations of emerging active regions show an evolution consistent with this prediction, and no evidence of helicity concentrating in wider sections.

Type
I. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 97 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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