Authors: Elena Golubeva
Publish Date: 2016/09/27
Volume: 291, Issue: 8, Pages: 2213-2241
Abstract
Variations in the solar magneticfield ratio over 13 years are analyzed relying on the comparison of simultaneous measurements in two spectral lines at the Mount Wilson Observatory MWO The ratio and correlation coefficient are calculated over the general working range of measured magneticfield values and in various ranges of the field magnitudes Variations in both parameters are considered We found the following tendencies i the parameters show changes with the cycle of solar activity in the general case ii their dependence on magneticfield magnitude is a nonlinear function of time and this is especially pronounced in the ratio behavior iii several separate ranges of the field magnitudes can be distinguished based on the behavioral patterns of the ratio variations Correspondences between these ranges and the known structural objects of the solar atmosphere are discussed This permits us to reach the conclusion that the dependence of parameters considered on the magneticfield magnitude and time is connected with the variety of magnetic structural components and their cyclic rearrangements The results represented may be useful for solving interpretation problems of solar magneticfield measurements and for the crosscalibration of applicable instruments They can also be of interest for tasks related to the creation of a uniform long temporal series of solar magneticfield data from various sourcesThis study analyzes data from the synoptic program at the 150Foot Solar Tower of the Mt Wilson Observatory The Mt Wilson 150Foot Solar Tower is operated by UCLA with funding from NASA ONR and NSF under agreement with the Mt Wilson Institute The author is grateful to the staff of the observatory who regularly acquired data and provided the undisturbed operation of the websiteThe author is grateful to L Bertello for his comments concerning the crosscalibration stability of magnetograms to RK Ulrich for the useful discussion about MWO data to RB Teplitskaya for professional advice to ML Demidov for his review of the study to DYu Kolobov for his valuable critical remarks on the manuscript to J Sutton for correcting the English and to A Kustov for his assistance in preparing of the LaTex code
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