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Observations of the Polar Magnetic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Jan Olof Stenflo
Jan Olof Stenflo*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Lund, Sweden

Abstract

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Results from observations of the polar magnetic fields made in 1968 with the Mount Wilson magnetograph are reported. The field was of south polarity near the heliographic north pole and of north polarity near the south pole. The inversion line of the field was at latitude +70° in the north hemisphere and −55° in the south, which coincides with the position of the polar prominence zones at that time. Observations made simultaneously at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory are in good agreement with the Mt. Wilson data and confirm the latitude variation of the field.

A few hundred of Hale's plates from 1914, which he had used to determine the Sun's general magnetic field, have been remeasured. The plates were automatically scanned with a digitized microphotometer, and the treatment of the data was made with a computer. While the visual measurements by Van Maanen had given a strong general field similar to that of a dipole, the computer reductions did not reveal any significant field (stronger than 5 G) at any latitude.

Type
Part VII: The Polar Fields of the Sun and the Magnetic Activity Cycle
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 43: Solar Magnetic Fields , 1971 , pp. 714 - 724
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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