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光球内不同磁场结构对米粒组织的影响

Effects of Different Magnetic Structures within the Photosphere on Granulation

  • 摘要: 利用抚仙湖太阳观测站(Fuxian Solar Observatory, FSO)的1 m新真空太阳望远镜(New Vacuum Solar Telescope, NVST)在TiO波段拍摄到的高分辨率观测数据和最新的米粒识别算法, 对光球内不同磁场结构对米粒组织的影响进行了统计研究. NVST数据具有较高的米粒对比度(9.6%), 因此有助于对更小尺度的米粒进行识别并作详细的分析和研究. 研究发现米粒组织存在两个临界尺度D1和D2, 而且尺度小于D1的米粒, 其等效直径概率密度具有幂律分布特征, 指数与Kolmogorov谱指数相近. 所以, 米粒组织可以根据其起源机制的不同分为3种类型: 尺度小于D1的湍流米粒、尺度大于D2的对流米粒以及尺度介于D1和D2之间的湍流对流混合米粒, 这种米粒被认为是前面两种米粒的过渡情况或中间情形. 同时, 还发现光球内不同磁场结构对湍流米粒的临界尺度D1是有影响的, 附近的磁场越强D1越小. 但是, 磁场对其外部的米粒组织的平均辐射强度及其分布特征则几乎没有影响.

     

    Abstract: Using the high-resolution data in the TiO band taken by the 1 m New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) at the Fuxian Lake Solar Observatory (FSO), we statistically investigated the effects of different magnetic field structures within the photosphere on granules via the newly developed algorithms for identifying granules. The data of NVST have much higher contrast (9.6\%), therefore which is helpful for identifying smaller granules and performing more detailed analyses and studies than before. It is found that two critical scales of granules, D1 and D2, exist, and that the probability density of the equivalent diameter of granules with scales smaller than D1 follows a power law distribution similar to the Kolmogorov spectrum. We classify granules into three groups of different origins: the granules smaller than D1 are turbulent, those larger than D2 are convective, and those with scales between D1 and D2 result from blending of turbulence and convection, which is an intermediate case of the two formers. Meanwhile, we also noticed that the different magnetic field structures within the photosphere impact the critical scale, D1, of the turbulent granule in an apparent way such that the stronger the nearby magnetic field is, the smaller the value of D1 is. On the other hand, magnetic field imposes almost no effect on the mean radiative intensity of its external granules and the corresponding distribution features.

     

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