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The Sun as a Magnetic Rotator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Jaakko Tuominen
Jaakko Tuominen*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Severny (1969) used a technique which enables the Sun to be observed like a magnetic star. Because of rotation, different sides of the Sun are visible at different times. A curve of variable magnetic field is obtained. During nearly three periods of rotation the Sun appears to be a quadrupole magnetic rotator. Generally, the integrated field of sunspots seems to be opposite to the field of the Sun as a whole. The curve seemed to remain similar throughout the year 1968.

Type
Part VII: The Polar Fields of the Sun and the Magnetic Activity Cycle
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 43: Solar Magnetic Fields , 1971 , pp. 754
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

References

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