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Structural magnetic elements observed in sunspot penumbrae are employed as indicators of motions occurring in and around penumbrae. The analysis presented here is base on SDO/HMI continuum images and magnetograms of the line-of-sight field obtained for the active region NOAA 11117. In a first approximation, the penumbral magnetic fields can be considered alternating spines and interspine filaments. In the plane of the sky, spines are thin radial elements with higher field strengths and lower magnetic-field inclinations compared with those in surrounding areas. It is confirmed that spines first appear as protrusions of the umbra magnetic fields visible in magnetograms, and then develop simultaneously with the growth of the penumbra. The departure of magnetic elements from penumbrae as a result of the detachment of the ends of spines begin 1–1.5 h after the spine formation. Inmature penumbrae, magnetic elements emerge fairly often, and the departure of groups of field elements sometimes generates structures resembling moving ribbons. The velocities of magnetic elements that have separated from spines are a factor of two to three lower than those of elements that have separated from inter-spine filaments. The results obtained agree well with an “uncombed” model for the penumbral magnetic fields.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Grigor’ev, L.V. Ermakova, 2018, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 88–96.
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Grigor’ev, V.M., Ermakova, L.V. The Motion of Magnetic Elements in and around Sunspot Penumbrae. Astron. Rep. 62, 81–88 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772917120034
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