2024/01/12 by D. Orozco Suárez, L. R. Bellot Rubio, Suárez, D. Orozco +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #FOS: Physical sciences #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.06720
openalex publication_date 2024/01/12 · openalex created_date 2024/01/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The advection of internetwork magnetic elements by supergranular convective flows is investigated using high spatial resolution, high cadence, and high signal-to-noise ratio Na I D1 magnetograms obtained with the Hinode satellite. The observations show that magnetic elements appear everywhere across the quiet Sun surface. We calculate the proper motion of these magnetic elements with the aid of a feature tracking algorithm. The results indicate that magnetic elements appearing in the interior of supergranules tend to drift toward the supergranular boundaries with a non-constant velocity. The azimuthally averaged radial velocities of the magnetic elements and of the supergranular flow, calculated from a local correlation tracking technique applied to Dopplergrams, are very similar. This suggests that, in the long term, surface magnetic elements are advected by supergranular flows, although on short time scales their very chaotic motions are driven mostly by granular flows and other processes.