Fine Structure in Sunspots: Sizes, Lifetimes, Motions and Temporal Variations

Abstract

The analysis of a 4 1/2 hour series of high resolution white light observations of the umbra in a sunspot NOAA 7519 is described. An object-tracking procedure was applied to the destretched movie of 360 frames. In total, 662 umbral dots were tracked and their intensity variations, effective diameters, lifetimes, and proper motions were measured.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 1997
Accession Number
ADA334909

Entities

People

  • G. W. Simon
  • M. Sobotka
  • P. N. Brandt

Organizations

  • Phillips Laboratory

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Canary Islands
  • Czech Republic
  • Data Reduction
  • Diameters
  • High Resolution
  • Image Segmentation
  • Information Operations
  • Intensity
  • Mathematics
  • Observation
  • Power Spectra
  • Republic
  • Scientific Research
  • Spatial Distribution
  • White Light

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