On the tilt and twist of solar active regions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 611, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 1149-1155

  Holder, Zachary A ^a   Canfield, Richard C ^a   McMullen, Rebecca A ^a   Nandy, Dibyendu ^a   Howard, Robert F ^b   Pevtsov, Alexei A ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: activity; Sun: magnetic fields; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044228392     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422247     Document Type: Article

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