Tag Archives: coronal heating

215. Quantifying Suppression of Solar Surface Magnetic Flux Advection with Increasing Field Strength

Contributed by V. Aparna. Posted on July 30, 2025

It is widely known that magnetic fields suppress convection, but this effect has not been quantitatively assessed. Using vector magnetograms from HMI observations, the authors measured the advection speeds of magnetic flux as a function of field strength and found that the speeds steadily decrease with increasing field strength.

120. Magnetic Fields and the Supply of Low-Frequency Acoustic Waves to the Solar Chromosphere

Contributed by S. P. Rajaguru. Posted on February 27, 2019

Through analyzing simultaneous HMI’s visible-light observations and AIA’s ultraviolet observations, the authors show that a significant amount of acoustic waves with frequencies lower than the theoretical cutoff frequency can channel up along less inclined magnetic field from the photosphere to the chromosphere.