Flare differentially rotates sunspot on Sun’s surface

Sunspots are concentration of magnetic field visible on the solar surface, which were thought to be unaffected by solar flares that take place in the solar corona. Here the authors report evidence of a flare-induced rotation of a sunspot, showing nonuniform acceleration following the peaks of X-ray...

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Main Authors: Chang Liu, Yan Xu, Wenda Cao, Na Deng, Jeongwoo Lee, Hugh S. Hudson, Dale E. Gary, Jiasheng Wang, Ju Jing, Haimin Wang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/504814b990d04ef1ac2f0904bb79121a
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