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Sunspot Proper Motion and Flare Frequency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Csepura ,
L. Győri  and
A.A. Galal
G. Csepura
Affiliation:
Heliophysical Observatory of the Hungarian Acad. Sci., H-4010 Debrecen, P.O. Box 30, Hungary
L. Győri
Affiliation:
Heliophysical Observatory of the Hungarian Acad. Sci., H-4010 Debrecen, P.O. Box 30, Hungary
A.A. Galal
Affiliation:
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

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Flare activity of solar active regions is generally believed to depend on a sheared configuration of magnetic fields (Hagyard et al. 1984). There are cases when the shear necessary for a flare can be attributed to the emergence of a new flux in the spot group (Wang 1992). But, perhaps, a newly born active region can also influence the magnetic field configuration in a nearby active region (Poleto et al. 1993, Gesztelyi et al. 1993). In this paper we are interested primarily in the influence of a newly emerging spot group on a nearby one.

The three neighbouring active regions NOAA AR 6412(B-C), 6413(A) and 6415(D) have been studied between 13-22 December 1990. White-light pictures for studying sunspot proper motion and area evolution were taken at Gyula Observing Station (Hungary), Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory (Hungary) and Helwan Observatory (Egypt). Times and positions of the flares were taken from the Solar Geophysical Data (No. 558, part 1, February 1991).

Type
Flares in Late-type Stars: Radio and Optical
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 45 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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