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Solar Physics | 2012

Evolution of Active and Polar Photospheric Magnetic Fields During the Rise of Cycle 24 Compared to Previous Cycles

Gordon Petrie

The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field during the declining phase and minimum of cycle 23 and the recent rise of cycle 24 are compared with the behavior during previous cycles. We used longitudinal full-disk magnetograms from the NSO’s three magnetographs at Kitt Peak, the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) vector spectro-magnetograph (VSM), the spectro-magnetograph and the 512-channel magnetograph instruments, and longitudinal full-disk magnetograms from the Mt. Wilson 150-foot tower. We analyzed 37 years of observations from these two observatories that have been observing daily, weather permitting, since 1974, offering an opportunity to study the evolving relationship between the active region and polar fields in some detail over several solar cycles. It is found that the annual averages of a proxy for the active region poloidal magnetic field strength, the magnetic field strength of the high-latitude poleward streams, and the time derivative of the polar field strength are all well correlated in each hemisphere. The active region net poloidal fields effectively disappeared in both hemispheres around 2004 and the polar fields have not become significantly stronger since this time. These results are based on statistically significant cyclical patterns in the active region fields and are consistent with the Babcock–Leighton phenomenological model for the solar activity cycle. There was more hemispheric asymmetry in the total and maximum active region flux during late cycle 23 (after around 2004), when the southern hemisphere was more active, and the rise of cyclexa024, when the northern hemisphere was more active, than at any other time since 1974. We see evidence that the process of cycle 24 field reversal has begun at both poles.


Solar Physics | 2013

Magnetic Flux Changes and Cancellation Associated with X-Class and M-Class Flares

Olga Burtseva; Gordon Petrie

We perform a statistical study of permanent changes in longitudinal fields associated with solar flares by tracking magnetic features. The YAFTA feature tracking algorithm is applied to GONG++ 1-minute magnetograms for 77 X-class and M-class flares to analyze the evolution and interaction of the magnetic features and to estimate the amount of canceled magnetic flux. We find that significantly more magnetic flux decreases than increases occurred during the flares, consistent with a model of collapsing loop structure for flares. Correlations between both total (unsigned) and net (signed) flux changes and the GOES peak X-ray flux are dominated by X-class flares at limb locations. The flux changes were accompanied in most cases by significant cancellation, most of which occurred during the flares. We find that the field strength and complexity near the polarity inversion line are approximately equally important in the flux cancellation processes that accompany the flares. We do not find a correlation between the flux cancellation events and the stepwise changes in the magnetic flux in the region.


Solar Physics | 2011

Nonlinear Force-Free and Potential-Field Models of Active-Region and Global Coronal Fields during the Whole Heliosphere Interval

Gordon Petrie; Aurélien Canou; Tahar Amari

Between 24 March 2008 and 2 April 2008, the three active regions (ARs) NOAA 10987, 10988 and 10989 were observed daily by the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) Vector Spectro-Magnetograph (VSM) while they traversed the solar disk. We use these measurements and the nonlinear force-free magnetic field code XTRAPOL to reconstruct the coronal magnetic field for each active region and compare model field lines with images from the Solar Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) and Hinode X-ray Telescope (XRT) telescopes. Synoptic maps made from continuous, round-the-clock Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) magnetograms provide information on the global photospheric field and potential-field source-surface models based on these maps describe the global coronal field during the Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) and its neighboring rotations. Features of the modeled global field, such as the coronal holes and streamer-belt locations, are discussed in comparison with extreme ultra-violet and coronagraph observations from STEREO. The global field is found to be far from a minimum, dipolar state. From the nonlinear models we compute physical quantities for the active regions such as the photospheric magnetic and electric current fluxes, the free magnetic energy and the relative helicity for each region each day where observations permit. The interconnectivity of the three regions is addressed in the context of the potential-field source-surface model. Using local and global quantities derived from the models, we briefly discuss the different observed activity levels of the regions.


Solar Physics | 2014

Estimating Flare-Related Photospheric Lorentz Force Vector Changes Within Active Regions

Gordon Petrie

It is shown that expressions for the global Lorentz force associated with a flaring active region derived by Fisher et al. (Solar Phys.277, 59, 2012) can be used to estimate the Lorentz-force changes for strong fields in large structures over photospheric subdomains within active regions. Gary’s (Solar Phys.203, 71, 2001) model for the stratified solar atmosphere is used to demonstrate that in large-scale structures with typical horizontal magnetic length scale ≫u2009300xa0km and with strong magnetic fields (≥u20091xa0kG at the τ=1 opacity layer at 5000xa0Å), the Lorentz force acting on the photosphere may be approximated by a surface integral based on photospheric boundary data alone. These conditions cover many of the sunspot fields and major neutral lines that have been studied using Fisher et al.’s (2012) expressions over the past few years. The method gives a reasonable estimate of flare-related Lorentz-force changes based on photospheric magnetogram observations provided that the Lorentz-force changes associated with the flare have a lasting effect on the observed fields, and they are not immediately erased by post-flare equilibration processes.


Solar Physics | 2011

A Snapshot of the Sun Near Solar Minimum: The Whole Heliosphere Interval

B. J. Thompson; Sarah E. Gibson; Peter Schroeder; David F. Webb; Charles Nickolos Arge; M. M. Bisi; Giuliana de Toma; Barbara A. Emery; A. B. Galvin; Deborah A. Haber; Bernard V. Jackson; Elizabeth A. Jensen; Robert J. Leamon; Jiuhou Lei; P. K. Manoharan; M. Leila Mays; Patrick S. McIntosh; Gordon Petrie; Simon P. Plunkett; Liying Qian; Peter Riley; S. T. Suess; Munetoshi Tokumaru; Brian Thomas Welsch; Thomas N. Woods


Solar Physics | 2011

The Global Context of Solar Activity During the Whole Heliosphere Interval Campaign

David F. Webb; H. Cremades; Alphonse C. Sterling; Cristina Hemilse Mandrini; S. Dasso; Sarah E. Gibson; Deborah A. Haber; R. W. Komm; Gordon Petrie; Patrick S. McIntosh; B. T. Welsch; Simon P. Plunkett


Solar Physics | 2017

High-Resolution Vector Magnetograms of the Sun’s Poles from Hinode: Flux Distributions and Global Coronal Modeling

Gordon Petrie


Archive | 2018

Solar Magnetic Fields: from measurement towards understanding

A. Balogh; Edward W. Cliver; Gordon Petrie; S. K. Solanki; Michael Thompson; Rudolf von Steiger


Archive | 2010

Evolution of magnetic field in flaring active regions

Olga Burtseva; Gordon Petrie


Archive | 2010

Evolution of Magnetic Field in AR 10930 During the X6.5 Flare on 2006 December 6

Olga Burtseva; Gordon Petrie

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Deborah A. Haber

University of Colorado Boulder

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Edward W. Cliver

Air Force Research Laboratory

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Patrick S. McIntosh

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Sarah E. Gibson

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Simon P. Plunkett

United States Naval Research Laboratory

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A. B. Galvin

University of New Hampshire

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Alphonse C. Sterling

Marshall Space Flight Center

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B. J. Thompson

Goddard Space Flight Center

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B. T. Welsch

University of California

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