Monthly Archives: November 2015

46. Spatially Resolved Coronal Magnetic Fields Derived Using Seismology Techniques Applied to Omnipresent Sunspot Waves

Contributed by David B. Jess. Posted on November 19, 2015

Omnipresent magneto-acoustic waves, originating from within the underlying sunspot and propagating radially outwards, allow the spatial variation of the local coronal magnetic field to be mapped with high precision.