Modeling solar magnetic structures
Abstract
Some ideas in the theoretical study of force-free magnetic fields and magnetostatic fields, which are relevant to the effort of using magnetograph data as inputs to model the quasi-static, large-scale magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere are discussed. Basic physical principles will be emphasized. An attempt will be made to assess what we may learn, physically, from the models based on these ideas. There is prospect for learning useful physics and this ought to be an incentive for intensifying the efforts to improve vector magnetograph technology and to solve the basic radiative-transfer problems encountered in the interpretation of magnetograph raw data.
- Publication:
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Measurements of Solar Vector Magnetic Fields
- Pub Date:
- May 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985svmf.nasa...49L
- Keywords:
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- Force-Free Magnetic Fields;
- Maxwell Equation;
- Solar Atmosphere;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Chromosphere;
- Magnetic Signatures;
- Mathematical Models;
- Photosphere;
- Solar Physics;
- Sun;
- Solar Physics