Authors: M S Wheatland
Publish Date: 2015/04/01
Volume: 290, Issue: 4, Pages: 1147-1157
Abstract
Electric currents in solar active regions are thought to provide the energy released via magnetic reconnection in solar flares Vertical electric current densities J z at the photosphere may be estimated from vector magnetogram data subject to substantial uncertainties The values provide boundary conditions for nonlinear forcefree modelling of active region magnetic fields A method is presented for estimating values of J z taking into account uncertainties in vector magnetogram field values and minimising J z2 across the active region The method is demonstrated using the boundary values of the field for a forcefree twisted bipole with the addition of noise at randomly chosen locations
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