Global twist of sunspot magnetic fields obtained from high-resolution vector magnetograms

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 702, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Tiwari, Sanjiv Kumar ^a   Venkatakrishnan, P ^a   Sankarasubramanian, K ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: photosphere; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749315051     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/702/2/L133     Document Type: Article

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