Dark cores in sunspot penumbral filaments

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 151-153

  Scharmer, Göran B ^a   Gudiksen, Boris V ^a   Kiselman, Dan ^a   Löfdahl, Mats G ^a   Rouppe Van der Voort, Luc H M ^a  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

PENUMBRAL FILAMENTS;

SUN;

SUNSPOT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GAS FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0037079047     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01173     Document Type: Article

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