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| Paper: |
Solar Surface Emerging Flux Regions: A Comparative Study of Radiative MHD Modeling and Hinode SOT Observations |
| Volume: |
415, The Second Hinode Science Meeting: Beyond Discovery-Toward Understanding |
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79 |
| Authors: |
Cheung, M.; Schüssler, M.; Tarbell, T. D.; Title A. M. |
| Abstract: |
We present results from three-dimensional radiative MHD simulations of the rise of buoyant magnetic flux tubes through the convection zone and into the photosphere. Due to the strong stratification of the convection zone, the rise results in a lateral expansion of the tube into a magnetic sheet, which acts as a reservoir for small-scale flux emergence events at the scale of granulation. The interaction of the convective downflows and the rising magnetic flux tube undulates it to form serpentine field lines that emerge into the photosphere. Observational characteristics of the simulated emerging flux regions are discussed in the context of new observations from Hinode SOT. |
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