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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.